Picked for the Vice President ial nomination and the first woman of color. The announcement came in a text and then a tweet. Xhar Kamala Harris known by so many locally as the daughter of oakland has officially been tapped as Vice President bidens running mate. She is the first black female and the first Indian American on a president ial ticket. This news was overwhelming to the cocalifornia state director of south asians for biden in the bay area. For those of us who worked on her campaign, as a woman of chore, as an Indian American, i cant tell you what this feels like. Im happy. Reporter senator harris was among several women biden was considering for the vp position including Elizabeth Warren and karen bass. In a tweet biden explained why he picked harris saying she worked closely with his late son beau when she was attorney general of california. I watch as they took the big banks, lifted up working people and protected women and kids from abuse. I was proud then and im proud now
Campaigning on a national stage. Fundraising. Revving up crowds. Debating. These are all skills that will come in handy. And analysts would tell you that she is going to rev up the progressive base. Something that the president is all ready attacking her on. But she has a long history. She also brings experience in another key issue that we can expect to get a lot of time this campaign season, and that is criminal Justice Reform as not only a former prosecutor, she brings the experience, experience that has been scrutinized by some of her critics in california, as a prosecutor, and state attorney general, but now shes become a vocal proponent of police reform. Cosponsoring a key piece of sweeping legislation, so that is something that we can also expect to see on this ticket. So in bidens email to supporters that i saw today, hes saying the country has to come together and unite, referring to racial injustice, after she went after him at the debate. Some are wondering how did they work
Disgrace for warning undocumented immigrants about possible i. C. E. Arrests. To me thats obstruction of justice. And in january of this year, mr. Trump lashed out at speaker nancy pelosi, tweeting clean up the streets in San Francisco. They are disgusting. City leaders have always acknowledged that the homeless situation has been one of the citys most challenging problems. Needles and human waste have tarnished the citys image. We stopped to ask a city worker who collects garbage, and, yes, needles, if he has seen a change. Has it gotten worse, better, more, less . Less. Reporter less . Less than before. Than last year. A lot. Reporter it appears he may be right. Numbers from the Health Department show that in 2018, more than 3,825,000 needles were collected. This year, through april 30th, nearly 1,083,000 needles were disposed of. Again, those are only partial numbers. I cant begin to pretend as if i know whats going on in the president s head. I then asked the cochairman of the San