Faith, business and Community Leaders tonight are remembering a business pioneer. He died last night in his sleep at age 60. Abc 7 reporter kate larson joins us live in mission bay, and tyson had a big impact here in the bay area. Reporter Bernard Tyson was a giant in health care and he made this happen, the entire area around the newly built chase center which of course was sponsored by kaiser and named in honor of their slogan, t tysons many legacies here in the bay area. It is the nations largest Nonprofit Health care provider. Tyson was at the company for more than 30 years. He was born in vallejo and he and his wife denise lived in the east bay and in San Francisco. He does have three children. I just spoke to his personal friend, he was shocked when he found out that tooyson passed ay in his sleepover night. They were out in the community the past several days as they always did. Its not only a loss personally to all the community and the entire nation because Bernard Tyson was r
Or 4 suspects in this case and they will be made to face the consequences. Two of the victims were taken to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. The other treated at the scene and released. Police say theyre investigating another incident on jackson street that may be related. The chairman and c. E. O. Of oakland based Kaiser Permanente has unexpectedly died. Bernard tyson passed away in his sleep. He was 60 years old. He served as c. E. O. Since 2013 and assumed the role of chairman in 2014. He was the companys first black c. E. O. Was and the championship for accessible healthcare, and work place diversity. Gavin newsom paving the way for countless professionals of color to pursue leadership roles in healthcare in corporate america. Mayor london breed added a civic leader who cared deeply about the issues affecting our community, especially homelessness. The kaiser board has named Gregory Adams as interim chairman and c. E. O. Effective immediately. Its been decided this we
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Announced kaisers plan to build a new 900 million Headquarters Building in oakland. He and his wife lived in the east bay and San Francisco and he had three sons. Tyson was deeply involved in Community Building and he was remembered today at the annual black expo in oakland and by barbara lee. Im shaken. Our community has lost a great human being and we mourn his death today, but we must also remember the legacy hes left for so many young people, especially for so many of our young africanamerican men, our children of color, our, you know, people who have been marginalized and left out of the whole economic and health care fabric of our country. He was a person that was touchable, accessible but yet he was a vis way that gave not only many people hope and aspirations that they can exceed at whatever level of life that they desire. Thats what he meant to oakland and to us. Kaiser board member edward said he was an exceptional leader and honorable man. We will greatly miss him. Kaiser di
Not the case. There is a suspect description, police say the archer remains at large, we are told he will be facing two attempted homicide charges. Along the San Francisco bay trail, off i 80 in richmond, theres a few homeless encampment. On saturday around midnight, east bay regional cart Park District police say archer targeted the camp, shooting arrows into it. Two homeless men were shot in the abdomen, one also suffered an additional hit to his leg. News of the violence, traveled to the homeless advocates that say that homeless are particularly vulnerable. There facing element similarly anything can happen to them people target them, they have no recourse they have nothing they can do about it. Sally runs the organization that works with the city of oakland to provide tiny homes for homeless youth. Shsaing wherever they have to go in order to find a place where they can sleep. So a marsh becomes a possible house. For people and, its awful to consider that people are literally putti