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the street fair tomorrow. >> it is in the mission, how are we going to get there? we are not driving. >> well what do you suggest? >> there are a lot of great transportation choices in the city and there is one place to find them all, sfnta.com. >> sfmta.com. >> it is the walking parking, and riding muni and it is all here in one place. >> sitting in front of my computer waiting transportation options that is not exactly how i want to spend my saturday night. >> the new sfmta.com is mobile friendly, it works great on a tablet, smart phone or a lap top, it is built to go wherever we go. >> cool. >> but, let's just take the same route tomorrow that we always take, okay? >> it might be much more fun to ride our bikes. >> i am going to be way too tired to ride all the way home. >> okay, how about this, we can
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ride our bikes there and then we can take muni home and it even shows us how to take the bikes on the bus, so simple right here on my phone. >> neat. we can finish making travel plans over dinner, now let's go eat. >> how about about that organic vegan gluten free rest rft. >> can't we go to the food truck. >> do you want to walk or take a taxi. >> there is an alert right here telling us there is heavy traffic in soma. >> let's walk there and then take a taxi or muni back. >> that new website gives us a lot of options. >> it sure does and we can use it again next weekend when we go to see the giants. there is a new destination section on the website that shows us how to get to at&t park. >> there is a section, and account alerts and information on parking and all kinds of stuff, it is so easy to use
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>> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) hello, i'm luke and i'll translate what my friend justice said. we're exist with other students with bay area french schools in welcoming his excellency from the french republic inform san francisco. now may i please present the achieve pro to call charring let (clapping) >> you couldn't have said that better. so french is alive and well in our french american schools and french is in the air with our invite with the french republic of france we're delight to have
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you here. we're pleased you've brought a delegation i believe the administrators of your government and the elected officials and your ambassadors and advisory. you're in a city of innovation and the french have brought so much here today wear in city hall and your host is mayor ed lee who women's to you to this city hall who has a great deal to talk about the french architecture. thank you, mr. president for coming west after your visit in washington, d.c. pr it's n a little in congress so you, you came across the united states to study fast foods but we welcome you here today. and san francisco we hope that
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not only you learn about all the innovation but i also know you'll see the hospitality and see the french influence and the cultural that's plausible here in 1839 the first immigrants came and brought others. there's someone here who knows about the city hall. he's been a supervisor and the mayor of san francisco and now may, i.e., present the great governor gavin newsom >> thank you good to be back. on behalf of governor jerry brown and in a great deal state welcome mr. president, it's an honor to have you here. i was thinking about this all over the world people pickup
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nations and nations are being torn apart by racism and others things. you think about san francisco and the state of california we're in one of the most diverse regions in the most diverse state in america. by and large i think people see us to prosper and i think mr. president, if there's anything you should take away at our best we celebrate diversity and as doctor king talked about we unite around our common things that bind us together. we have entrepreneurial genes we
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have doers and like our city our state priced itself on the leading cutting-edge. i know you're going to be visiting some of the other great cities we think you choose wisely and we're hopefully, you'll take away desired ideas and we look forward to inviting you back. 56 a france >> along with the lieutenant governors there are other and i've brought my secret secretary george shooults. the mayor of the great city your
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host as a french connection he can sing and went to paris when he was 16 and i'm not sure he tasted the benign with you he's been synin the mayor office. i want to introduce our mayor who's gone there with many that folks and mayor i'll go as is advanced team. may i present our mayor of the great city mayor ed lee thank you charlotte. i failed to get casted at the les mis show but i'm pleased to have a chance to welcome our president of the french folks to a san francisco. it's important we meet with our
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country's oldest ally the french. obviously our country's coordinate on biennial issues and he met that president obama yesterday. i must thank and commend him for venturing here to san francisco. i think your stay in our city will make it clear that while washington, d.c. is the united states national capita san francisco is the innovation capital of the world (clapping) mr. president, as home to top technology and creativity would it be fair to say in the world we've seen more and more talent move here attracted by our mixed use and transit originated city but the undying art's and cult. and this influx a has benefited
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san francisco in numerous ways dr. tb long standing civil changes exchanges. i know from our city paris that fransz it committed to remaining attractive and innovative. president al lesson and i had an excellent conversation and we talked about how to encourage growth and encourage notation in all the areas of the economy while making sure our economic success reaches all our citizens. we talked about how to adjust common challenges like housing and education and jobs and affordability.
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so we want to encourage partnerships within businesses and san francisco and france. but perhaps the greatest ties go beyond the government and businesses those are the bonds of family. since the earliest days of san francisco when we were known as yerba buena french men, women, and children left their homes and their ancestors and came here for tuesday night. our city is proud we've been a long term home for many french and frenchmen's. the gold brought in a lot of migration here in the horrifies of france. the french built the fair mount
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hotel and organized our first fire companies. they built the first railroad in san francisco a steam line to admission delores. french citizens were amongst the first to form the banking institution in our city and there are french associates in our city social and religiously and patriotic and philosophical tropic and can trace their beginnings to our city. we've embraced this as cultural and trade for censures and tourism. the most visible influence of fravrns france what can be found in our monument to the city beautiful. it's a movement that was designed by the architect arthur
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brown who was trained in paris and our city hall was designed. some might say that still isn't france greatest influence in san francisco but might be the legacy of french bakers who brought flour do you get during the california gold rush, you know, do you get is a culinary traditions and the most important french companies were founded by french immigrants who recipe shill lives on today, it's the oldest continuing running company.
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so mr. president, i hope you'll see how much we san franciscans value our french county to our character and the quality of our city. you have a standing invitation to visit whatever you want and our doors will be open to you. it's with great honor i hereby present to you the key to the city of san francisco (clapping.)
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francisco thank you for the warm representation and gavin newsom thank you for your kind words and for the support in france. i would like i to greet mayor brown who unfortunately wasn't able to be here because of the circumstances. but >> (speaking foreign language.) >> mr. shooults wants to thank you and pay transcribe to the work he did he's a wonderful man
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(clapping) thoogz france was awarded the keys to the city of san francisco. i want to thank you warming for the honor you bestowed upon me and the copy of the key i hope that works as well as the first copy of the key >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (laughter). >> but i hope it's a sign of confidence we'll be able to come back to a san francisco and turn the key and open the door.
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>> (speaking foreign language.) >> san francisco is a city it is dear to all french citizens heart. and when i arrived here i was struck by the button i didn't have this building that reminds us of the hotel in paris. i also when i arrived i was welcomed by the young children singing the french song i was
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