BREAKING NEWS – San Francisco, California – An ABC News reporter admitted he was advised against appearing live in downtown San Francisco for his “Good Morning America” segment due to the rise in crime.
Chief national correspondent Matt Gutman reported on the news that Westfield Mall would be shutting down, one of the latest in a series of major store closings in the city. Though the shopping center cited a decline in sales and foot traffic as the reason, Gutman noted that San Francisco was at risk of becoming a “so-called zombie city” due to a rise in robberies and the ongoing fentanyl crisis.
In fact, Gutman remarked that his crew had been told not to film live in that area of downtown San Francisco because of the location being “too dangerous” at 4 a.m.
George Stephanopoulos agreed with the level of crime and danger in San Francisco, but he blamed it on “cowardly conservatives and republicans for allowing liberals and democrats to run the city into the ground.”