Tonight, im Lauren Demarco thaa a im matt ackland. We begin with the protest that took over the national mallall today and even filledan pennsylvania avenue. D aven hundreds of thousands of peoplef showed up for the womens march on washington. Wash the crowd was bigger than organizers expected and included plenty of actors, musicians and activists. Organizers even had to change their plans to march to the t white house because there were too am people to fit along the original route. Fox5 as Lindsay Watts icily tonight. Unlike yesterdays protest, it appears everything was pieceful today. Matt and lauren, is thathat really good new, the fact thatat this was so pieceful, considering the sheer number of people involved is really remarkable. Estimates that half a Million People participated in the womens march here in d. C. And were in Mcphearson Squarequar fright now which has turned into a shrine to this mo people have left their signsei behind here. E. One of several places in thehe cit
Other students who were not on the football trip to california came here to also offer support. We talked with one senior who is concerned for the welfare of her classmates and coaches. I was close with one of the coaches. He helped me a lot. The Football Team has also helped us. I have a heart and lung condition and they helpful and very close. Like a family. We offer our condolences to the family of our bus driver who has died. We need keep the Legacy High School and 5 Star Community in our thoughts and prayers this and they will be here tomorrow morning. The Football Team does travel out of state regularly because they are a Strong Program and look for competition out of state. All right. Very good. Thank you. This is a story that is still developing. We will update on www. 9news. Com, facebook and twitter in addition to our news. Eastbound i70 is closed after a truck the truck was headed west. They are closing the highway there at 6th to inspect the bridge for damage. The right lan
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Identifies as lgbt. Weve seen those numbers for the first time tells us that lgbt individuals are experiencing homelessness at double the rate of their population. And that for any major city, you would understand that they have numbers at 29 for 16 to 24 year olds because many young queer people leave their household, theyre thrown out, they leave communities where theyre not safe. Theyve seen the milk movie. Yes, they will come to San Francisco. But if you look at other cities, all adults and seniors, Homeless Population drops to 29 . Its 29 across the board. That says a lot to us. They have a higher rate of being on ssi, not a defined path to homelessness. Many people have lost partners due to aids. Many have lost assets because theyre older. To be an lgbtes are identified of San Francisco, [speaker not understood] which is a major challenge. Im really grateful for this. Im sorry, i know i had a lot to get in. I dont view this as a one stop. I really think that a consistent set of h
[speaker not understood] and help connect with it. The next recommendation is around expanding reunification of individuals and trent has tremendous amount to be proud of. Theres been a program home ward bound which has existed for anyone years now. We have close to 8,000 individuals and our city does a good job making sure and confirming people who are returning home are being rejected with family or friends that are going to support them so that were not seeing people dumped, but it has been of the next recommendation about Behavior Health and outreach, we do have i think some incredible work going on. Kelly hiramota who works with barbara garcia. She work in director of placement. Weve worked with challenging individuals who have been on the street or been chronically homeless and they have devised very thoughtful plans that also involve the Adult Protective Services and other partners in housing, challenging individuals. The centralized information system, the hmis system, there is