Joe Rosato Jr.

San Francisco city leaders Tuesday announced a new fundraising effort to help support fishermen who lost traps and fishing gear in the recent inferno that destroyed Pier 45 Shed C.

Fishermen are still reeling from that devastating fire a few weeks ago at San Francisco’s Pier 45. Dozens of fishermen are now racing to replace lost gear. NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. shows us how the city is now hoping to help them out.

In the Bay Area’s world-famous foodie scene, the COVID-19 pandemic quickly pushed restaurants to turn to takeout meals to stay afloat. It didn’t matter if it was a greasy spoon burger joint or a Michelin star-rated temple of cuisine.

In the Bay Area’s world-famous foodie scene, the COVID-19 pandemic quickly pushed restaurants to turn to takeout meals to stay afloat. It didn’t matter if it was a greasy spoon burger joint or a Michelin star-rated temple of cuisine. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

Poet and City Lights Bookstore founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti once declared the intersection of Broadway and Columbus in San Francisco’s North Beach the “center of the universe.”  It’s now a universe of iconic bars and restaurants struggling alongside thousands of other businesses under quarantine orders aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19. In North Beach, the economic downturn poses a...

You’ve heard about closures to parks and other recreation areas this weekend. So, what are you supposed to do to keep yourself entertained? These suggestions could be useful. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

San Francisco’s Union Square is reflecting the times and a growing fear of what could come next. Businesses all around the historis shopping spot have not only shut their doors, many are also boarding up their windows.

San Francisco’s Union Square is reflecting the times and a growing fear of what could come next. Businesses all around the historis shopping spot have not only shut their doors, many are also boarding up their windows.

They say when the going gets tough, the tough get creative. Just ask Alex Towery, owner of Towery Electrical in San Rafael. With scant business and nine employees — mostly skilled electricians — he searched his thoughts for a plan to keep them on the payroll.  So next week instead of wiring homes and installing electrical panels — his electricians…

Everywhere you look, businesses are shut down during the shelter-at-home order. Some are trying to stay afloat by taking creative measures. Joe Rosato reports.

The legendary surfing spot known as Mavericks near Half Moon Bay attracts surfers and onlookers to its super dramatic skyscraper-like waves. But when researchers Alison Young and Rebecca Johnson of the Cal Academy of Sciences visit the spot every month, it’s purposely on a day when there are no waves.

The coastline near Half Moon Bay, is home to some of nature’s most spectacular waves. Maverick’s is of course known world over for its epic surf, but some scientists, are most excited about its low tide. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

Amid the cow pastures and wind turbines dotting the hills of rural Contra Costa County, a group of engineering students from the Netherlands sat at the vacant end of a country airfield, testing what once might’ve been viewed as a work of science fiction.

On Monday, the world recognized...
a key Holocaust milestone in commemorating the 75th anniversary of the...
liberation of the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the...
Russian Army — a pivotal occasion the United Nations declared as International...
Holocaust Remembrance Day. But 98-year-old Berkeley resident Ben Stern didn’t need a special occasion to remember the horrors of the Holocaust, its vast body count and the...

Fifty-seven violins arrived in the Bay Area last week, wooden ambassadors carrying with them the darkest chapter in world history — the Holocaust. Joe Rosato reports.

Fifty-seven violins arrived in the Bay Area last week, wooden ambassadors carrying with them the darkest chapter in world history — the Holocaust.  The violins are among a collection amassed and restored by an Israeli father and son in a project known as Violins of Hope. The violins were all played by European Jews in the Jewish ghettos and Nazi…

Clean drinking water is becoming more and more precious in the face of droughts and rising population, but one San Francisco group is hoping to change that. NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. shows us a first-of-its kind experiment in San Francisco that could revolutionize water re-use in big cities.

Let’s face it, in the new 754-unit NEMA luxury apartment building on San Francisco’s mid-market street — there will be a lot of showering, sink running and — well — toilet flushing. But Aaron Tartakovsky and his company, Epic CleanTec, are aiming to give all that water — and even human waste — a second act.  The company is conducting a…

Most of the time, when livestock operations purchase sacks of feed for their animals, they’re not thinking about the possibility to turn the leftover packaging into something functionally artistic. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

The plain white walls in the hallway of the venerable San Francisco Art Institute tightly clutched their secret for more than eight decades — buried beneath a dozen layers of paint. But a new effort to turn back the decades and peel away the paint has bared one of those secrets — a fully intact 1930s fresco painted by Frederick...