it would be tragic to that kind of landmark. it a popular bar now. reporter: not only is twin peaks iconic but the first lgbtq bar in the country to have something unique, windows. back then the windows were revolutionary. at that time it was risky because if you were seen in a gay bar, you could lose your job. reporter: in an effort to save the bar, owners started this go fund me page to cover expenses and the community responded big time. so far donating more than $55,000 and growing. because we are an institution that people don t want to see us go away, and i just thank every one of them from the bottom of all of our hearts. reporter: the senator says twin peaks is part of history. the lgbtq community, the bars are part of our culture. it part of our dna and we need to make sure they survive. reporter: twin peaks owners hope donations will be enough to get them through until the day they are allowed to reopen their doors and welcome customers back. cornell
the teachers here at least, they re dependent on how large their classes are. and they can t survive with a class that is 20% of what it used to be. on lakeshore avenue, even the most successful business, a restaurant with two celebrity chefs is trying to envision a future. i don t think anybody had pandemic in their business plan. tim nugent, the owner of shakewell has had to reinvent his business from fine dining to takeout, and with that lay off 70% of his staff. rather than thrive, the goal now is survival. i think if you stop, if you ve already got boards up, you die, you don t stay alive. so people remember me, we re still here. so when that day comes, we re still alive. we re not forgotten. back here at namaste, owner kimberly leo takes small solace in knowing she is not alone. i wish i could hug you. that doesn t make the goodbyes any easier. in oakland, laura anthony, abc7 news. and employment rates are plummeting across california. a 42% decline in
at risk. you get suicide. you get depression. you get mental problems. one by one, the religious leaders stepped up to the mic to ask why grocery stores could be open but houses of worship could not. can t we reopen under the same conditions that the stores and supermarkets, marijuana clinics, tattoo parlors are opening under? both bishop barber whose diocese covers 85 churches in alameda and contra costa county and bishop bob jackson whose church holds 4,000 parishioners say they already have protocols in place including masks, seating to keep parishioners six feet apart and cleaning and disinfecting of pews after every service. some say they plan to reopen on may 31st despite what the government says, and to that end they already have legal representation. our goal to defend the first amendment right to spread the gospel of jesus christ. tyler says he has an army of lawyers ready to defend any church leaders who defy the governor s order and resist arrest. bisho
i think mike pence has helped to reset the debate and this will clearly help. we are in the spin room. it has been coming from the other side that mike pence did not adequately defend donald trump tonight. i think it is more important to talk about their policies and what they will do to help real americans. why did hillary clinton 30,000 e-mails? i think she has created three or four jobs, that s when she hired people to help delete her e-mails, and then they ended up taking the fifth. mike pence s job was not to play lay out at was to vision and go on offense about how disaster is four more years of these economic policies and national security policies would be. hadkly, i think tim kaine too much coffee. you know, the guy just interrupted ad nausea him ad nausea him. i don t think he did well tonight at all. thank you for joining us. appreciate it. governor pence said several times that the clinton campaign was insult riven. can you tell me about that strategy?
ms. clinton: really? and you know, yesterday, some of his supporters said, well, it just shows he s a genius. that he didn t pay any taxes. well, what kind of genius loses a billion dollars in the first place? [cheering] you know, in the debate, he said not paying taxes made him smart. but think about what that means. it means that all the rest of us who pay our taxes, right, what s he saying about us? but more than that, zero taxes means zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for pell for pell grants to send young people to college, zero for health, zero for education, and you stop and ask yourself, this is the same person who s been going around really just dumping on america. he says our military is a disaster. well, he could not be more wrong but thank goodness the rest of us paid to support our men and women in uniform who have done so much for us. [cheering and applause] ms. clinton: today in colorado, he claimed he brilliantly used the laws to avoid paying ta