sidner heads to the bay area, a place that she wants calls home to san francisco. when i first laid eyes on san francisco, i was enchanted. from where i am right now driving over the bay bridge and it looked like someone had taken an enormous vat of fog and just continuously poured it over the hills. like dry ice being poured over a perfectly sculpted city on a stage. and then you get down into the city and you meet these glorious human characters. and you get to experience the microlclimates and the terrifyingly steep hills that make the city an adventure. then there s the glorious
with anderson cooper, cnn s sara sidner heads back to the bay area to find out what happened to san francisco. here is a preview. so when i first laid eyes on san francisco, i was enchanted. from where i am right now, driving over the bay bridge, and it looked like someone had taken an enormous vat of fog and just continuously poured it over the hills, like dry ice being poured over a perfectly sculpted city on a stage. and then you get down into the city and you meet these glorious human characters and you get to
resources make them want to stay. the video showing a group of kids getting off a muni bus as they try to navigate their way through an entire block of open drug use. shoplifting in san francisco, it s forcing stores to close, and the thieves, some of the most brazen you will see. mobs of looters storming and ransacking high-end stores in the san francisco area. unprovoked attacks on elderlelderly asians. where are people feeling empowered that they can do this with impunity? crime, staffing shortages and police response times are getting worse. what will it take for the city to change? and joining us now to talk more about her whole story, in-depth report on what happened to san francisco, is none other than cnn anchor sara sidner. i m so glad you re doing this. like you, this is a city that i love, that is fascinating, that the nuanced and complex.
san francisco, a city that has been in the headlines for crime, unaffordability, and its street conditions, according to one recent survey, san francisco residents feel less safe now than at any point since 1996, that s according to the city s own controller s office. this week on the whole story, sara sidner heads to the bay area to find out what happened to san francisco. the video of the guy wheeling his bicycle into the walgreens in san francisco loading up and then bicycling out went worldwide. the mass swarm robberies went worldwide. [ sirens ] reporter: even with some high-profile videos going viral, robberies and larceny, which is property theft without threat of violence, were both down in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic levels according to san francisco police data. while the number of car
twitter about her incident and it happened extremely quickly. but, sara, you have obviously you ve obviously visited many times and lived there yourself. you ve spoken to residents all over the city. if crime is, as you say, lower, to what do you attribute that feeling that many people have of being unsafe? because certain things are in your face. if you just take things like your car being stolen or your car being broken into, those are everyday things that really make your life very, very miserable. and so you cannot, as i said earlier, get away from some of the things that are extremely aggravating, but also can be really scary in the city. and it is in your face, partly because a lot of the homeless tents that sprung up in 2020 during the pandemic, during the emergency of the pandemic, when you look at that, you know,