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we fulfilled 24 wishes. our chapter covers from movntd ray 17 communities and we expect to fully 3 hundred and 50 wishes this year. we send verizon's it out to the wish families and interviews the wish child and if you do their heartfelt wish then go to work to make it happen. dismissals is a 5-year-old boy who was diagnosing diagnosed with life without parole when he was 20 months old he's 5 hose now in remission he had his port removed hose monopoly on the chemotherapy. this particular wish the parents

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wish he wanted to be thinking about being batman. there's been a lot of super issues that have happened cross the country but i think that can only happen in san francisco the mayors on board and the city hall it's an incredible outpouring and i love how san francisco is in the spotlight here and people around the world sending their love to san francisco. you kids we thank you for your encourage and we wish we can erase the pain we hope this is the day of magic and that you'll remember this forever. bat kid forever in san francisco >> san francisco is unique in this way and it's part of our

compassion and we have a civic duty to be involved and people are stepping forward if in huge way. it's about san francisco and it's inspired by miles and about every child who has a severeyou.

>> good afternoon, everyone i'm brad i'm a soccer dad here in san francisco who's going to win. that's right we have great

soccer at 3 o'clock the usc usc u usa is going to play these kids need a place to play those a ballot measure coming up we h we need to have a soccer fields at the single most important place today from hemminger gonzales who got their start they might not be in brazil we're grad to have 7 members of the board of supervisors and the mayor to support this ballot measure. without further ado, let me introduce two important soccer

moms. (clapping.) >> good afternoon. i'm amber wilson a san franciscan native i grew up playing on this fields i got married in the city and my wedding photos were at a beach let and now we have two children a 7 and 3 years old it's greatest great to see them out on the fields i hope to see my children play on a safe fields we don't worry aboutism hurting themselves and have the support of their families and joy those communities as well. so thank you very much for having me here (clapping.) >> hi i'm from ccii i didn't pray a place of business play on the kids i find myself as a

parent following my children. i want to talk about a soccer field it looks like a pier of grass or turn over but actually, it's some more powerful and beautiful and true to what being a family it is itself it the narrative spot where people write their stories and hold your kids where they cry i celebrate their victories and when a child goes down and you look at the awe of the dads and moms every authorized or friday bringing they're kindness for our children where the children learn how we where they can be and find compassion. it's not a green flat space at all it's bigger and powerful for families not only for families

but all people in san francisco we need more spaces that fill with imagination and kindness and losses to the not only the kids that play but a poultry place for kids to learn lessons i'm a thousand percent sure we need more fields and support the supervisors i mayor to create the spaces for everyone and everyone's imagination and look at a green plays and s see what is happening. thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you kirsten it was beautiful ambassador i'd like to start introducing some of our important supporters supervisor farrell. >> thanks brad. >> all right. kids who loves playing soccer and thinks the

u.s. is going to win. i'm supervisor farrell the supervisor representing district 2 i'm proud to be here with the mayor and the board of supervisors and the rec and park department i'm proud to be here as a supervisor but i'm proud to be here as a father 3 small children here in san francisco i'm excited to be here with brad and amber and kirsten thank you for your for coupling i had the opportunity to coach my sons soccer and this initiative couldn't be more important if we're to continue to attract families to our great cities and counterfeit the lives of our playing 2350e89dz is a no brainier a that's why i'm so supportive of this initiative at the board of supervisors we join with the mayor being champions of creating new playgrounds in san francisco and making sure

that the existing praugdz are available for all year round this gives us our children experience and fight obesity and builds community in san francisco. you know, every weekend with my children we go out and their placing support we go out to all sport fields we have to go to treasure island are different part of town but we need to do better as a city this initiative is key and i hope you join me and get our kids out there playing thank you very much. (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor farrell before i introduce the next sponsor supervisor supporting this initiative i want to acknowledge and thank supervisor yee and supervisor tang and supervisor mar who are up here as well

(clapping) we can't say enough of thanks to this one spooert who's been here to improve playing fields is is supervisor wiener that's out ahead of that from the very beginning (clapping.) thank you. i'm scott wiener and the honor of representing sdribltd 8 we have if you're been at the mission bay pools or soccer fields we're doing great work for opportunity for kids and daylights deputies for everyone to get experience to play and have a healthier city we can't afford to backslide to make sure we have enough playing fields we have a sporj o

shortage of baseball fields we need to do the work to make sure that everyone who wants to play sports and to engage if recreation isably to do so it's about kids and young kids and older kids and about adults and seniors and people in college everyone in this city having access to good recreation. we know that even though san francisco was recently rated as one of the top 5 biggest it cities in the u.s. we have an above average rate of tyrone type two diabetes we have to be focused to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to have visible recreation so let's win. thank you (clapping) >> we are also thankful to have

the support from the leader of the board of supervisors. i hope you'll support him here's president chiu >> good afternoon kids is is the usa going to win and are we going to win in november. >> yeah. >> all right. let me tell you a couple of thing what we're doing today, this notice not just about your future as world-class three of those we know you're learning teamwork and cooperation and leaders someone who played soccer balanced what i was a kid in you don't play soccer well, you can grow up to be a supervisor or the mayor or a world-class soccer player i want to thank all the parents and coaches and

taefbz you know how important is it is to move forward those young people in front of us represent the diversity of san francisco and the world. that he are in the and i city with the density it neighborhoods west of mississippi with the least amount of open space and fields it's important to move forward. identification proud when our san francisco board of supervisors move forward forward our playing fields in the beach of o lay we need to move forward so kids i have 3 words repeat. let kids play >> let kids play. >> let kids play. thank you very much. (clapping.) >> thank you, supervisor.

i'd like to acknowledge hydra mendez from the board of education and maria prosecute the children's department of family and the rec and park department and other directors that will take us to the future. (clapping.) is a man that needs no introduction we're here because of him we're excited to have him the mayor that will fight mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you, thank you. well, i wanted to join our board of supervisors the parent but the most important thing our kids any public comment? let the kids play. yeah. (clapping.) well, i want to thank city fields for working in partnership base this is a unique partnership you look across the city country how many

of our cities are reinvesting in claurgsdz and doing it in a smart way you, you know, for every fields we work with to reinvestment in there's a possibly of saving one million gallons one million 5 hundred goggles of water is saved when we do those paris parks and this past year 2 thousand 4 hundred additional kids got to play in our parks how about that? 76 additional hours (clapping) those kinds of things are important we're only a city of 49 square miles and we can't build you enough parks for all the kids we've got to reintensity and reenergy them i want to thank the board of supervisors i want to thank our rec and park director and the

leadership of our education leaders and thanks all the people in the private sector susan thank you for leading the efforts with about city fields and the public (clapping) that i private partnership is important as we make sure we do our best to preserve what's best but allowing thousands of more kids could use them how about more hours of soccer kids >> yeah. >> so from garfield to correcter amazon to sunset to the mission all parks are welcoming kids we've got to do a better job let's keep visiting in our infrastructure make that a private-public deal go kids let's all do this.

>> let kids play. let us play. let us play. let us play. let us play. let us play. thanks kids. two brief outlines before i turn it over to the big screen on the safekeeping plaza. first ma'am, grady member of the parks hallway lines thank you for your support and last but not least is you guys the kids because while we're up here working hard it's our excitement and your commitment to the neighborhoods in playing supporters that matters thanks guys >> thank you all for comingend.

>> so hello and welcome to each and every one of you in the room i'm mike i'm the vice president of united air representing this hub many hour town on behalf of myself and coworkers i've stations over thousands over the world we'll truly, truly want to bring in this with a bank today. folks i'm honored with special guests i want to acknowledge a couple of very, very important people first and foremost the mayor of our yee great city folks mayor ed lee (clapping) >> and, of course, our ambassador unfor the people's republic of china.

(clapping.) and also a special guest from the san francisco inspirational airplane our chief operating officer mr. north america veer and folks with me another representative of unit is our flight a friend of mine mr. david a vice president of sales around the world (clapping) and folks you'll hear from them i also want to introduce jake another one of of our vice presidents there he is welcome jake (clapping) we want to welcome other special guests you our customers traveling on the number 9. we want to thank you for your

business and we're delighted to have you join us on this integral trip because of you in san francisco this makes this event very, very special you're our first customers going into china and because of great xherdz and employees and business partners we have in the bay area it allows and makes in historic flight possible thank you for this annual flight it's a world-class of and folks we the doors and gates here are going to take you too over 3 hundred and 70 designations so thank you for a joining us. without further ado, i want to welcome mr. dave hilton our vice president of the sales

(clapping) >> good afternoon. how does is everybody feeling are you excited about china >> that had to be all our customers. thank you and this is really a spectacular celebration usually i mean, i'll not stand behind the podium especially, as i'm as short. i'm sure you're aware of certainly here in san francisco united offers travelers more choices than other other aural but we're especially proud for this great launch of this service united will be the first airline to fly non-stop from u.s. to mainland china behind

shanghai and the first to serve same thing did you. but you also know you see behind us this gate this new changing due with our borrowing dream liner it's resolutioning flying experience extraordinary passenger friendly which makes it very important were our customers and all the people involved it's an amazing airline we expel khan do you to be a popular designation for leisure customers chung do is chinese second largest city with future 5 hundred companies that are doing business we're excited to welcome all those business customers as you know it's the

nature habitat for the that an district attorney and especially the codeine and opera to you can do business and have a great time all all the time when you're in khan did you it has showing so much to offer so in addition to providing non-stop serves f services that will help with our partners ain't air china are the most world most expensive air china offers flights to 60 plus city's the same day connects with our non-stop khan do service on united we'll have a great privilege serving china thirty years and china is one of the

most fast growing dynamic and fast growing united has twice as much capacity to china than other other flights. so mike's talked about the fact please indulge we're extremely proud the gateway at the sfo and it's made possible by the amazing people and businesses and all the places in san francisco and up and down the west coast and we offer, of course, more service around the bay area than any other airline and united operates more than 3 hundred flight to more than 90 designations around the world and in addition, we also offer

non-stop to cities around the united states and europe and latino america and canada so we have the world covered for you and now, of course, adding changing do we're honored that mr. mayor is here and the people from the general council from china and all of you are customers a lot of our important travel partners and media we're tliefrld i'm going to turn it over to our fabulous mc mr. mike. thank you, again everything that's a pleasure to be here. >> thank you dave hilton man. >> folks next up i'd like to introduce somebody who really is approximately to the city and done a fantastic job as our may be mayor he's the people's mayor

folks i'd like to welcome mr. mayor meanwhile. (clapping.) >> thank you mike and thank you, david for m that wonderful delay when a with wasn't a that a great performance on that think name changing dave and i were joking he needs that skill for the business world i need it for our political world we're going to have to excel but i want to say congratulations to united you've been a huge part of our airport hub. >> thank you john and other chiang did you is one of the most important cities in china

not only the fourth largest but its population over 14 million demolishing we have 16 and a half visitors here that you rivals that and it's the first of major flight into the interior part of china had city is one of the huge chung do and you don't have to be china scholars ask ambassador ed for all the information by it's historic one of the most historic cities in china yes, we mentioned that they not only have the passion, prejudice district attorney sanctuary but they are famous their cuz begin and art world but for the business world that's why this flight is so important i predict that will going from 3 times a welcome to more