Good evening everyone, I'm Allison Camarada, welcome to CNN Tonight.

Another case of violence on the streets of San Francisco, this time a former fire commissioner

was allegedly attacked by a homeless man with a metal pipe.

But the suspect's attorney claims it was the fire commissioner who was the aggressor

after he sprayed the homeless man with bear spray.

We're going to go deeper into this story to see what it says about the homeless situation

in San Francisco.

Plus, Teachers Union President Randy Weingarten is here after a contentious hearing on Capitol

Hill about whether Teachers Union's kept schools closed for way too long during the pandemic.

What are the lessons for next time?

And Steven Spielberg says he made a mistake in the re-release of his classic film ET and

he'll never do it again.

Okay, we'll talk about that, but we begin tonight with that attack on the streets of San

Francisco.

We warn you this video is disturbing to watch.

Prosecutors say former San Francisco Fire Department Commissioner Don Carmaniani was

seriously injured after being attacked on April 5th by a suspect with a metal pipe outside

of his mother's home in San Francisco.

This video comes from Carmaniani's attorney.

But this video that you're about to see here provided by the suspect Garrett Dottie's

public defender shows what she alleges is Carmaniani attacking Dottie with a bear spray

minutes before that attack with the metal pipe.

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