U.S. Vice President and Oakland native Kamala Harris made her first visit to the city Monday since taking office in January.

Harris was greeted on the tarmac at Oakland International Airport by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-CA, and state Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.