ucsf. steve hillyard: they fought us on every legal issue they could. jessica: steve hillyard, the medical malpractice attorney hired by the pedersons, agrees that monitoring could have saved anders. but he argues that wasn't what killed him. jessica: do you think they overdosed him? jessica: now, when we return, you will hear his answer. it is the basis of a brutal court battle, involving allegations that it was actually dozens of mistakes that led to anders' death. and we've learned it's also happening to thousands of other families across the country. ♪♪♪ did you know that renovating your kitchen and bathroom is one of the best ways to increase the value of your home? i'm mike holmes here with ivan from agm renovations america's number one kitchen and bathroom renovators thanks mike! we make kitchen and bathroom renovations easy for everyone. we quote and design each project and help customers select all finishes without having to leave their home! wow! agm are the only kitchen and

ucsf's kidney transplant program is considered one of the best in the country. that's why a bay area family chose it when a brother decided to give his sister the ultimate gift of life. within hours after the surgery, he was in a coma. tonight a danville family is speaking out for the first time. they want you to know how a simple, inexpensive device could have spared them so much heartache. >> when the code blue is going off, i felt like i couldn't breathe. >> his face was yellow, and his lips were blue. and i knew he wasn't breathing. >> i can't breathe, i can't breathe. something is wrong with me. i can't breathe. >> he was dying. and i was sitting right there. and i didn't even know it. it had been the happiest day of my life with my kids. and it turned into the worst day. >> reporter: just 24 hours earlier, a happy melissa pettersson had accompanied her kids, kelly anders to ucsf's kidney transplant center in san francisco for what was supposed to be a life-changing surgery. >> he just said, you know, that he was so happy to give this to me. >> reporter: ke

and i work for ucsf. [applause] i'm a social worker and a program director for city wide supportive housing programs. thank you so much for being here. it's great to see so many supporters of this project. thank you, madam mayor and supervisor dorsey. and ucsf is thrilled to continue our work here at 1321 mission and we're excited to be part of this innovative collaboration with our new partners at dish and compass, family services. just like with all of our other supportive housing programs, our clinical services are going to be here on-site to work alongside our partners at dish and compass to support the residents of 1321 mission in stabilizing their housing and achieving whatever goals they have. we're really excited to get to work and to provide a stable and supportive community for the folks that are living here at 1321 mission. and we're thrilled to be continuing our work as a part of the terment in solutions of homelessness here in -- permanent work here in solutions in homelessness here in ucsf.

klein testified that ucsf made serious errors post surgery. anders wasn't being monitored by a pulse oximeter, a simple device that would have alerted staff that his blood oxygen was dangerously low. what's more, hospital records show that when anders stopped breathing, no one had checked his vital signs for nearly five hours. >> failure to do that every four hours is a breach of the standard of care. >> reporter: another doctor, raffy simonian, former director of the department of pharmacy at uc san diego testified he found more than 30 failures in anders' post operative care. among the mistakes the expert witness testified about in court, hospital staff didn't account for the effects of dilaudid on someone who just lost a kidney. from the pharmacist to the nursing staff, no one recognized the potency of the dilaudid dose anders was given. and the code blue team failed to give him narcan, a drug that reverses the effects of opioids. >> one mistake led to another to another to another. >> reporter: mistakes hilliard believes turned out to be f

she is graduating from ucsf. i thought i would take a test. i have not tested since i tested positive for the first time. it is like why bother? but i felt so much better with the paxlovid that i thought to be. stupid, right? i thought maybe i'm not positive anymore, and i was just crushed. kristen: is the line really faint now, though? >> oh, no. within minutes, it was like gigantic. kristen: i'm sorry to hear that, but dr. walker, address that. i think this is day five? >> day for of paxlovid. date five or so since her first symptoms. kristen: and testing positive, right? day five? >> something like that. kristen: i know you guys are such sponsor will people and would not want to chance infecting anyone else, but there are some institutions -- universities, for example, where if you test positive, you isolate for five days and after five days, you can exit isolation after which you just have to wear an n95. if you look at it that way, she is close, right around there. >> i think that is wrong. if that line is super positive, she is infectiou

the shooting happened at mariposa between owens and indiana around 9:00 about a block west of ucsf benioff children's hospital. police say they responded to an assault call before 8:00 and confronted two men at the scene. opened fire and one man died. the second taken to the hospital where he decided. it's unclear if the men were hit by gunfire or their injuries might have come from the assault. more details as we get them. >>> to the fire watch, bay area crews dealt with brush fiers last night this one between concord and pleasant hill, stopped b.a.r.t service just after 6:00 p.m. thankfully the flames did not spread far. >>> and in san jose, crews put out three different spot fires that broke out around the same time near the happy hollow zoo. a park along mckee road. >> a live look at the state capitol, legislation that would have put speed cameras on bay area streets hit a roadblock. the billed killed in the assembly would have allowed pilot speed camera programs in six california cities, including san francisco, oakland and san jose. this is the third time san francisco assemblyman ph

you see regions approved plans today for ucsf to build a new hospital at parnassus heights. officials say the new hospital will address us ucsf's capacity problems, increasing inpatient bed capacity by 37. the emergency department will also expand by nearly 65% the plan will also allow ucsf to renovate the existing moffitt and long hospitals at pronounces heights. construction is expected to start next year with the hospital opening in 2030. the plan will cost $4.3 billion protest today at valley fair mall in san jose employees. they're frustrated about a new plan that forces them to pay to park. at their workplace interviews. jesse gary has their message to mall officials. san jose's recently remodeled retail jewel, the westfield valley fair mall, more than two million square feet of retail space new shops opening by the month and hundreds of thousands of shoppers annually browsing and buying. and oblivious to most small demonstration taking place on the front sidewalk. we're asking the lowest paid workers to foot the bill for an upscale mall, a handful of san jose state st

so joining us now to talk more about all of this ucsf infectious disease expert doctor peter chin-hong. doctor, thank you for being with us where you stand on this. the country is dealing with not wearing masks at a time when the numbers are rising. what is your advice? >> well, time i so think we can do all the things that we want to do, which is reconnect with humanity. reconnect with the moms. we connect the important people in our lives. but we have to do so and as safe as responsible away as possible to what it means is your safest when you're up to date on see if it's when you need knew how to access back. facts looted the oral agents. so the ones most at risk if something were to happen and of course, you can do the same things that we know. well, if you are with a large group, all high-risk group, you meet outdoors instead of indoors. some people are bringing back the rapid testing as a way to make that gathering a little bit safer. and if you're in doubt, wear a mask. >> so, doctor, you know, a lot of people for particularly for cinco de mayo are going to go out and celebrate

. >> joining me now live, ucsf infectious disease specialist dr. jim hon and can't thank you for helping us along the way. >> my pleasure, terry. thanks for having me on. >> talking about san francisco and one county and does reflect the bay area and really california. steady rise of both cases and hospitalizations. a month ago in san francisco, 40 hospitalizations and now 98. why do you think we're see ago spike in those numbers and do they startle or scare you? >> doesn't scare me, terry, because we're still a fraction of where we were in the middle of january. the other idea is that the more you increase cases in the community, the more people are coming in for other reasons than they're going to be diagnosed with covid in the hospital. generally speaking, not everybody has real deal covid symptoms and maybe with covid or, you know, alongside -- we don't have all the features of an endemic because it's evolving and we can drive the numbers of deaths down to accept the background rate. >> we need it collectively we need to optimize and i am prove

chair of the ucsf department of medicine and a great follow on twitter. if you want to get his thoughts on almost a daily basis. so appreciate your time tonight. doctor wachter. my pleasure. thank you. >> and i'm rebecca strom in for lawrence karnow. we're looking at a very thickening marine layer. you can kind of see it behind me here. the star tower camera and that glow there right in the middle of your screen. there. that is of the clouds and the fog. that's a glowing because of the city lights because we can't see anything below it because it is so thick and it's cooling things down across the entire bay area that we're going to be feeling during the overnight hours. 48 degrees right now in pacifica and half moon bay. 50 right here in downtown san francisco. 56 degrees in san mateo. we're looking at 60's in downtown san jose right now and more 60's as we get further inland. concord in dublin, both at 64. 56 in the lay her right now, 50 degrees in the north bay for fairfax. 53 degrees cooler in petaluma. that's a 48 currently futurecast for showing us

the good news is that ucsf in fertility treatment? doctors say they. >> do not think an overturn of roe v wade will hurt or limit access to infertility treatments. that's both here in california and beyond. but it could impact the ivf process for couples. >> and the number of embryos a couple can generate and store. here's doctor heather huddleston with the ucsf center for reproductive health. >> in the area state could make a rule that her son had begins at fertilization. and if that's the case, then an idea we do generate which is that, you know, a gun is from merging together and creating an embryo, which one we're working with them is really just a ball. and, you to 100 cells, those embryos would be to equal protection under the law. and you know, you would not guilty to start. >> the doctor told me this could then impact how many embryos a couple can make and hold on to a state could mandate a couple may only be able to create one embryo if in theory that embryo doesn't stick during an ivf procedure of in the whole process of har

kristen: we are back with ucsf department of medicine dr. bob walker talking about the latest headlines. cdc modeling shows daily hospital admission levels and covid-19 related deaths in the u.s. will increase over the next four weeks. this hasn't happened in months, so clearly, this is concerning. but how concerning ako -- but how concerning? dr. walker: any increase in death rate is concerning. what we have seen is a significant increase in cases as the new variants get better at infecting people and not much increase of hospitalization. we're starting to see an increase in hospitalization because there is so much covid around. it seems to me unlikely that we will see overwhelmed hospitals again like we have seen in the past, but i do think it is likely that we are going to see hospitals have more covid patients in them and an uptick in death. probably not in people fully vaccinated. certainly not young people fully vaccinated. but if you have an 80-year-old who is fully vaccinated, enough of them who have covid, a few of them will get ver

ucsf infectious disease specialist dr. peterson hung the just there might be another reason. >> because we were so good for so long we are susceptible to getting infected with a virus that has mutated a lot so that our vaccines do not recognize it that easily. >> most medical experts insist the vaccines have helped to keep hospitalizations down. san francisco researchers have published a study shedding new light into how the symptoms of covid-19 are changing. abc7news reporter luz pena spoke to experts about what this means as we head into the peak of this recent surge. reporter: after a year of collecting data from more than 63,000 people who got tested in san francisco, researchers learned how the symptoms of the virus are evolving. >> it is not the same disease with delta and the previous variants. reporter: a uc berkeley infectious diseases expert said the study confirms what clinicians. are seeing. eye-opening characteristics of how the virus is affecting the human body with omicron versus delta. reporter: people infe

monica gandhi from ucsf appreciate your time and insight. thank you. >>> the covid situation as you know is changing every day. we are constantly updating our streaming app. on your roku, apple tv, or amazon fire search for nbc bay area and down load. you can watch stories about test and treat sites opening across the bay area. >>> also tonight bay area gas prices hitting a record high. we've said it before. we've been saying it for months. why do we keep going up? three counties now seeing average prices over six bucks a gallon. take a look. here are today's averages around the bay area. pick your county. san francisco, marin, san mateo counties just over six bucks a gallon. the cheapest cost in contra costa county, $5.87. the cost of gas is catching the attention of a lot of local lawmakers including congressman ro khanna who came to town for a town hall today in newark. he says he thinks it is time for the government to intervene. >> costs are crazy. >> with the government acting, that is just to stabilize prices because the prices are ou

we'll be joined by ucsf chief of medicine dr. bob walker. >>> a dispute over who can march in the upcoming pride parade. sfpd and mayor breed not happy, so they are dropping out. >>> good evening. the east bay cheerleading squad accused of racism. we'll show you what they did and when will the nba finals start if the warriors were to make it? those stories in just a few minutes. we will start with our hot weather. soaring temperatures and fire danger. our sky ranger overhead this afternoon in the hills above san ramon. you can see the retardant drops there. this is about 25 acres were burned in a rural area. no evacuations and firefighters appear to have the situation under control. things can change as we've seen. let's bring in our chief meteorologist and what's the latest in san ramon and what do we need to keep an eye on fire danger here? >> we are seeing temperatures starting to drop off. that will help firefighters out. 75 degrees right now. humidity also gradually increasing at 36%. i see wind gusts tonight of about 10 to

we are with ucsf department of medicine chair dr. bob walker, and his wife, talking about their covid journey. they have been on our show three times. i want to get you some here are questions on facebook. alexis lou writes in to say, after the second covid booster, does everyone need a third covid rooster in the future? i think the concern is i know why a lot of people who are fully vaccinated, fully boosted, and are still seeing breakthrough cases. it can be really discouraging. dr. wachter: understandably so. katie i'm sure feels that way. she had two vaccines and two boosters and letter guard on a tiny bit and got infected. you should know that that booster, you took it for a reason. when katie got infected, it did not cross my mind that she would need to go to the hospital or she would die, which would not have been true prevaccination or pre-booster. it is doing something very important, which is lowering the chance of a severe infection and bad outcome. but it is clear that it somewhat low was her chance of getting infected, b

peter chin hong of ucsf, and we want to honor that contribution. >> from the moment the first cases of this novel coronavirus were reported out of china in 2019, there were elements of racism. >> it comes from china. that's why. it comes from china. >> i can name kung flu. >> what was it like for you as a scientist to hear that kind of talk? >> it was completely demoralizing to hear that. it was already hard enough to take care of patients, you know, every day in the hospital. and to take care of all of the questions we're getting and to communicate with the community. but to have he as the leader on top of that was really unacceptable. >> undaunted by that racism, ucsf infectious disease specialist dr. hong delivered the science with an added bonus of culture understanding. >> once i was more credible in the science, i was able to infuse some other themes. themes of equity, themes of, you know, understanding. >> while the asian american pacific islander community got hate, they continued doing the things that protected not only the aapi community but their greater bay area communities

a deadly officer involved shooting in san francisco not far from ucsf mission bay. this is at mariposa and owens. just a few moments ago police telus it happened as officers responded to an aggravated assault. one man is dead, another man transferred to the hospital with life-threatening at injuries. it is unclear both men were shot. we also know that no officers are injured. several streets right there in mission bay are shutdown right now. we should add that sf pd was giving us a briefing about 10 minutes ago and they were interrupted several times by protesters and hecklers right there in this area. we do have a crew at the scene and we will bring you more information as soon as it comes into our newsroom. >>> we are under a weather alert because of the fire danger that we are facing. that wind is starting to pick up across certain parts of the bay area. >> we are beginning to see the gusts through the mountains. these zone that i have highlighted here in red, it will be as strong as writing down to modesto including solano county into red flag fire warning. 55+

ucsf infectious disease specialist dr. peterson hung the just there might be another reason. >> because we were so good for so long we are susceptible to getting infected with a virus that has mutated a lot so that our vaccines do not recognize it that easily. >> most medical experts insist the vaccines have helped to keep hospitalizations down. san francisco researchers have published a study shedding new light into how the symptoms of covid-19 are changing. abc7news reporter luz pena spoke to experts about what this means as we head into the peak of this recent surge. reporter: after a year of collecting data from more than 63,000 people who got tested in san francisco, researchers learned how the symptoms of the virus are evolving. >> it is not the same disease with delta and the previous variants. reporter: a uc berkeley infectious diseases expert said the study confirms what clinicians. are seeing. eye-opening characteristics of how the virus is affecting the human body with omicron versus delta. reporter: people infe

and i even talked to a ucsf graduate. she came here in her cap and gown to take a picture with the wires backdrop. but she said not going make the game today. >> and i don't have tickets to the game. i sit right outside and watch the game with my really expect that things were done in the past couple years. rebuilding with play out big side for this game really have that it's more competitive game the last time and i and i'm just super thrilled. >> one afghan you heard from he got lawyers tickets for his birthday. so you could hear what his mama last night from what a great birthday gift. because tickets start at a least $200. we're live at chase center, gayle ong kron. 4 news. >> all right, kayla certainly a chase. the place to be tonight. we'll check in with you a little later. meantime, we want to see your warrior send us photos of yourself, your family, friends in your favorite warriors gear and we'll put them on our website. we may even put some of you in our shows. as you can see here, just to make sure to send them

but to have hate as a layer on top of that. >> reporter: ucsf infectious disease specialist dr. peter hong added the science with a layer of cultural understanding. >> once i was more credible in terms of the science, i was able to infuse some other themes, themes of equity, themes of understanding, themes of tolerance to other communities. >> reporter: while the asian pacific islander community got hate, they continued doing things to protect not only the aapi community, but their bay area communities as well. take vaccines, for example. 75% of all californians are vaccinated. more than 93% of the asian community got their shots, and they claim the highest vaccination rates among all age groups. >> the notion that we should all protect not only ourselves, but our communities is really something that strong in the asian american community. so i think vaccine as having a community benefits as well as individual benefits resonated a lot with the asian american community. >> reporter: dr. chin hong says asian americans didn't have the aversion to masking that some other groups had.

doctors at ucsf believe that paxlovid which is used for high-risk covid patients may also help with long covid these long haulers from prison. and harry actually spoke with infectious disease specialists about further studies and how this treatment could be applied to other viruses. >> if we could easily get a revocation, it's affordable around the world to everybody who could immediately take it. this virus would not be so threatening to any of us. 7 fekkai u.s. disease specialists believe antiviral is like paxlovid could change the game. >> professor of infectious diseases at uc berkeley doctor john swartzberg says more people need to know about paxlovid for its benefits for an additional covid symptoms and possibly long covid. if they take. >> paxlovid within the first 5 days of their illness. it reduces the risk of hospitalization or death close to 90%. it's fabulous. and, you know, they're of people who are availing themselves of this. doctor. mike gundy is an infectious disease specialist at ucsf where doctors gave patients with long covid symptoms. paxlovid long after infection. a

coming up in about 15 minutes, we'll hear more from ucsf's doctor peter chin hong. and now to our frightening ordeal in san francisco, where several elderly residents had to be rescued from a fast moving fire at their apartment building in the western addition, ktv reporter henry lee is there. after speak. of those who helped residents those flames. behind me. but luckily thankfully to witnesses who are teachers next door jumped in to help. only the first cell phone video shows flames shooting out from a senior citizen coop in san francisco's western addition, i heard the fires and then i saw flames coming out of all the windows on fire broke out about 10 in the morning and spread quickly through the wood frame building. it was scary to see seniors stuck on balconies. million vincent our teachers at rosa parks elementary school next door, they rushed over to help. evacuate residence. glad we're alive. solves as heroes for teachers, so we care about other people. i think hopefully anybody would do the same thing. it was a very fast moving fire, and it's rare for fire

tam: we have ucsf hospital. we have the warriors coming. we have a bunch of new apartment buildings. scholl: you have corporate headquarters of facebook, google, microsoft. christensen: we realize we live in such an amazing place with so much creativity and innovation. i'm excited when i see the young people in the tech industry all over town, all over the bay area commuting back and forth. there's an energy here. renteria: in mission bay, veryone pretty much works in tech, working on the next start-up. woman: i have 3 cappuccinos for here. renteria: i'll do a coffee. ok. thanks. i'm considered a millennial. we kind of are free spirits, and we don't believe so much in just full-time gigs. i work in social media marketing, so it's definitely a new industry. a lot of people don't quite understand it, but i run social for a living. the really cool thing about a job in social media or just tech is that you can work remotely. coffee shops are free. yes, san francisco is really expensive. there is no other place like san francisco where you're go

and i work for ucsf. [applause] i'm a social worker and a program director for city wide supportive housing programs. thank you so much for being here. it's great to see so many supporters of this project. thank you, madam mayor and supervisor dorsey. and ucsf is thrilled to continue our work here at 1321 mission and we're excited to be part of this innovative collaboration with our new partners at dish and compass, family services. just like with all of our other supportive housing programs, our clinical services are going to be here on-site to work alongside our partners at dish and compass to support the residents of 1321 mission in stabilizing their housing and achieving whatever goals they have. we're really excited to get to work and to provide a stable and supportive community for the folks that are living here at 1321 mission. and we're thrilled to be continuing our work as a part of the terment in solutions of homelessness here in -- permanent work here in solutions in homelessness here in ucsf.

bob walker, chair of the department of medicine at ucsf. dr. walker, you become one of several go to experts in the bay area. you've helped guide us to this pandemic with advice on masking and social distancing. you have been very cautious, and yet your wife recently contracted covid. what is up and like for you? >> yeah, she got it speaking at a science writer's workshop. she was fairly careful, although they did eat meals indoors and came back and had it. it has been hard watching her. this idea that it is like a cold is wrong. she was quite ill for several days. we feel quite grateful that it happens now it's not a year or two ago. she has been vaccinated and boosted. she is doing better now, she is five days out. i have continued to test negative despite the fact that we hung out together for a day or two while she was already infected. that just demonstrates the power of the vaccination and the boosting and the fact that i am also a little bit lucky. >> we are glad for both of you. can you describe this current rise that we are seeing? wha

probably one in 20 people who have absolutely no symptoms who are infected and we have that data from ucsf. >> doctors are preparing for another surge. >> what i'm concerned about after this weekend is a lot more cases. >> the specialist says he expects to see a number of patients hospitalized with covid after the holiday weekend but says the bump is likely manageable. he says right now the most common variant circulating in the bay area is an offshoot of bhu, that is 30 to 40% more transnational than the original omicron variant. and while he says people should get back to enjoying their lives he suggest you opt for outdoor events, wear a mask in crowds and look into how and where to get covid antiviral medicine, should you need it. >> a plan of action just in case leading to tomorrow's positive test. >>> the relatives of the victims one year later. >> we are trying their best to keep his memories alive. >> one man's family says he gave his life trying to save others. still ahead, the way they are making sure he is never forgotten. >>> but first, there is memorial day, several events we w

and my first job was mount zion emergency hospital which is now ucsf. and every day that i drive by ucsf and i look at the old mount zion emergency, i have a sense of pride knowing that i had a part of building that place. yeah, i did. i graduated as an apprentice and worked on a retrofit for city hall. i loved looking at that building and i take big pride in knowing that i was a part of that retrofit. my first formen job was a 40 story building from the ground up. and it's a predominantly male industry and most of the times people underestimate women. i'm used to it though, it's a challenge for me. >> as a female you're working with a lot of guys. so when they see a woman, first they don't think that the woman is in charge and to know that she's a person that is in charge with operations, i think that it's great, because it's different. it's not something -- i mean, not only a female but the only female of color. >> i was the first female finisher in the cement shop and i was the first crew supervisor, in the shop as a woman. when i became a two, the s

thank you doctor, from ucsf.>> thank you. >> something else that caught our attention, is it going too far to be politically correct. san francisco unified is eliminating the word chief from the job title, it in this originally comes from the french word for leader but native americans say it has been used inaccurately in tv shows and movies, wrongly depicting the head of their tribe as chief. school leaders admit there are some mixed opinions but after hearing from members of the native american trinity they are moving forward without using the term, they haven't finalized with the title they were using dead, but we asked about the thoughts on the name change, and they say it's not totally unexpected. >> i'm surprised and i'm not, if people are offended, there should be consideration for that. >> not worried about the name, let's focus on education, that's what they are therefore. >> leading to the debate and sepsis go, the school board voted to eliminate names like washington and lincoln from local schools but later rescinded after pushback from a lot of people in the community.>>> l

earlier, we asked ucsf infectious disease expert, dr. peter chin hong, to weigh in. >> kids also get sick. sure, they don't go into the hospital in droves, like adults do but we can't necessarily predict which kid is going to do well, and which kid won't beyond a few crude metrics. >>> head of the fda told house lawmakers today, a shuddered baby formula factory could be up and running neck week. the fda chief was grilled today about the agency's response to warnings at the largest formula factory in the u.s., however, he said relief is on the way. >> within days, it will get better but it will be a few weeks before we're back normal. it would sure help if we had a larger number of people. >> yeah, not celebration today. u.s. stocks fell deeper into the red. markets failed to claw back from their worst day since june of 2020. the s&p is edging closer toward bare-market territory. with the index down 19% from its all-time high on january 3rd. and the dow shed 230 points, just one day after it tumbled nearly 1,200 points. its worst trading

the chair of medicine at ucsf. if you go out, presume that there is someone who is covered positive in the room with you. dr. walker treated this showing the people at his hospital without symptoms testing positive for covid. patients and mostly people testing before going into surgery. the doctor suggested that one in 20 people in san francisco who are not feeling sick could have covid. in a crowd of 100 people, at least one of them would have covid. >>> coming up in just a few minutes, we could have a day of remembrance for covid, like a memorial day. national day to honor all lives lost because of covid. the bay area woman behind this campaign who lost her own father nearly two years ago early on in the pandemic. she joins us later in this program. >>> some other stories we are keeping an eye on tonight. >>> elon musk says the twitter deal is on hold. creating a frenzy of speculation. his musk backing out? what is the penalty if he does? or is this another way to lower the $44 billion price tag? quote, twitter d

peter chin-hong of ucsf. we want to honor that contribution during the asian american pacific islander month. from the moment the first cases of the novel coronavirus were reported out of china in 2019 there were elements of racism. >> it comes from china, that's why. it comes from china. i can name kung flu. >> reporter: what was it like for you as a scientist to hear that kind of talk? >> it was completely demoralizing to hear that. it was hard enough to take care of patients every day in the hospital and take care of all the questions we were getting with the community, but to have hate as a layer on top of that was really unacceptable. >> reporter: undaunted by the racism, ucsf specialist dr. peter chin-hong repeated the science with cultural understanding. >> once in terms of the science being credible, i was able to infuse some other themes, themes of equity, themes of, you know, understanding. >>> while the asian american pacific islander community got hate they continued to do things that protected th

plus, pfizer now pushing for a covid-19 booster for toddlers, ucsf doctor peter chin. hong will be joining us. >> live to talk about whether this 3rd dose is necessary for the little ones. and we're tracking a concerning grass fire burning right now in napa county. been talking about that. the latest developments next on kron. 4 news at night. for state controller, only yiu will save taxpayers money. wait, who, me? me? no, not you. yvonne yiu. yvonne yiu. not me. good choice. for 25 years, yiu worked as an executive at top financial firms. managed hundreds of audits. as mayor, she saved taxpayers over $55 million. finding waste. saving money. because... yiu is for you. yiu is for you. exactly. yvonne yiu. democrat for controller. oh, wow barbara corcoran! good morning. sorry, but we don't need any business help now. we're gigillionaires. what? we're gigillionaires now. i don't get it we have at&t business fiber with hyper-gig speeds. -but i just... -so thanks, we're doing great. i'm so happy for you! but i'm just here for my order. oh. entre-pin-eurs? yeah, my bowling

and i work for ucsf. [applause] i'm a social worker and a program director for city wide supportive housing programs. thank you so much for being here. it's great to see so many supporters of this project. thank you, madam mayor and supervisor dorsey. and ucsf is thrilled to continue our work here at 1321 mission and we're excited to be part of this innovative collaboration with our new partners at dish and compass, family services. just like with all of our other supportive housing programs, our clinical services are going to be here on-site to work alongside our partners at dish and compass to support the residents of 1321 mission in stabilizing their housing and achieving whatever goals they have. we're really excited to get to work and to provide a stable and supportive community for the folks that are living here at 1321 mission. and we're thrilled to be continuing our work as a part of the terment in solutions of homelessness here in -- permanent work here in solutions in homelessness here in ucsf.

. >> ucsf doctor chin-hong. good to see you again. sure. feels like it's taking forever to get these young kids vaccinated. we still don't know june or july. what do you think will happen and what's your advice to parents and families tonight? >> but we have go on the horizon and that's a date. and that date is june 15. we already has that because moderna had submitted their application earlier. and so twist because pfizer was a front runner and they to do says that a lower dose, they decide to go back to the drawing board with that sonoma doing okay month. we did early of the pfizer day looks really good that both probably going to be approved on the scene date with this june 15th i think they met all the the criterion so far, which is really for kids immunologic right here in soho many times on the body's response to get off to getting a dose. i knew it was comparable to the 16 to 25 year-olds for 2 doses with them. and of course, this is 3 doses for that. kids under 5 by the way, they also found that it was effective in interim analysis

you can head to our website kron 4 dot com and doctors at ucsf believe that paxlovid which is used for high-risk covid patients. >> may also help with people who have long covid. they say the drug is usually given on the onset of symptoms, but some patients saw improvement in long covid symptoms. weeks after getting the virus. interesting crowd for some and harry spoke with infectious disease specialists about further studies and how this treatment could be applied to other viruses. >> if we could easily get a read occasion, it's affordable around the world to everybody who could immediately take it. this virus would not be so threatening to any of u.s.. 7 texas disease specialists believe antiviral is like paxlovid could change the game. >> professor of infectious diseases at uc berkeley, doctor john swartzberg says more people need to know about paxlovid for its benefits for additional covid symptoms and possibly long covid. if they take. >> paxlovid within the first 5 days of their illness. it reduces the risk of hospitalization or death close to 90%. it's fabulous. and, you know, t

. >>> right now, a deadly shooting in san francisco near ucsf mission bay. where the unfolding investigation tonight in the officer involved shooting. >>> inflation nation, from gas to groceries, it is getting harder to make it in the bay. we are crunching numbers about how much more everyday items are costing all of us. >>> came on, the warriors are gearing up to take up the mavericks in game two and that wasn't conference finals. we need to know if you are headed to the game, today in the bay. >>> ergo, friday morning. it is 5:00 right now. i want to get you started with a look at the commute and forecast. we are tracking the increasing fire danger. the winds are picking up early. as they may guess, it is windy and a lot of spots, is actually in solano county and the delta. the wind will continue to pick up. we are under the red flag

we'll be joined by ucsf chief of medicine dr. bob walker. >>> a dispute over who can

appreciate your time, as always , dr peter chin hong from ucsf. good to see you. thanks so much, alex. well very weather. keep an eye on the conditions are on the fire zone up in the north bay up in napa county, and fortunately that fire of course, has the potential to, uh, spread rapidly , and we are keeping our eye on it throughout this newscast throughout the evening hours. red flag fire warnings posted for portions of northern california just like last week out towards solano county as well, but even in napa county, where that fire is burning, that northerly wind pre treating things kind of drying things out over the past day or so, and so the conditions already very dry and the immediate conditions right before this fire started not so great, but at least in terms of the red flag fire warning in place until eight o'clock this evening. we're taking a look at a few sites right now in napa county right now. soda canyon road, 84 degrees 81 1 site, napa window up there. we kind of have variable conditions, at least with these reports, but predominantly the wind di

bob walker of ucsf spoke about his wife's experience with the drug getting lengthy twitter thread and called the rebound a covid curveball. they agree that drug is still effective. >>> we will check in next with the warriors and the mavericks as we prepare for tomorrow night's game in chase center and the big news from the giants today. stay with us. ♪music playing♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ nothing brings the pack together like a trip to great wolf lodge. now open in northern california. >>> game five, chase center. the warriors need one more win. i will be with you, stuck with you. >> we can watch it together. they happened to lose tomorrow night, game six to be in dallas on sunday night. let's finish it off tomorrow night. what the eastern conference finals? in miami, hello to a rod. everyone is safe at the mess there. jimmy buffett, boston's jaelyn brown, watch this. he went to cow, you might remember that but he might be coming back to the bay area if the celtics and warriors are in the finals. they went tonight 93-80, boston takes a three-to series lead. baseball today, a

monica infectious disease expert at ucsf. just for starters here because this is so new for most of us, and your most lame an explanation, what is monkeypox? >> okay, so monkeypox is a dna virus that is the same family asked smallpox which we have eradicated. and cowpox. and, it mostly is seen in west and central africa, there is a majority of the outbreaks leasing, and it's, the last case we had here in the united states was a traveler in 2021 from nigeria, that's what we mostly see it. but, now we are getting out wake of monkeypox around the world, among mostly men, actually, and it is, seems to be from close contact, and it is an out break we have seen contained. >> can it spread quickly within the community theater? >> well, if we don't recognize it, and you know, don't isolate people then it comes back here but the best thing about what is happening now is the cdc, doing the news report on them for the community has been alerted, we have been alerted and we are all now on alert with very distinctive rash again. it does n

for example, today at ucsf 14 patients with covid back in january, 140. so the doctor says the bay area is also seeing more visitors as restrictions lift, and that could be another reason why covid cases are increasing. today it was a frightening word deal in san francisco, where several people had to be rescued from a fast moving fire at a senior apartment building. ktvu henry lee spoke with the unexpected heroes who helped the residents escaped the flames. the first cellphone video shows flames shooting out from a senior citizen coop in san francisco's western addition, i heard the fires and then i saw flames coming out of all the windows on fire broke out about 10 in the morning and spread quickly through the wood frame building. it was scary to see, um seniors stuck on balconies. finally and vincent, raise our teachers at rosa parks elementary school next door, they rushed over to help evacuate residents. glad we're alive. they were a little confused if we were alive or not, so i think that kind of settle them down themselves as heroes for teachers, s

this girl, 13-year-old ben if he does, she was last seen wednesday morning on 52nd street not far from ucsf children's hospital. she was wearing a blue and red hoodie with jeans and jordans sneakers. if you know anything about her whereabouts, call the police department. >>> lawmakers are considering banning the procedure of declawing katz. removing a cats claws is not only painful and can lead to other health problems but leaves the animal defenseless. the american veterinary medical association also discourages declawing unless a cat has excessive or inappropriate scratching behavior. the bill passed the state assembly yesterday. >>> we will come back with a 600 mile journey to raise awareness for a good cause. (music throughout) >>> a 600 minus mile bicycle trip is under way to help save the lives of thousands of cancer patients. >> bob is among those pedaling from symphysis go to san diego urging everyone to sign up for the national bone marrow registry. he credits his bone marrow donor for the transplant that saved his life. >> you get a drug that makes you overproduce stem cells in yo