>> singing the national anthem. oh, say, can you

see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? on the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, what is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, as it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam in full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: 'tis the star-spangled banner: o, long may it wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! and where is that band who so vauntingly swore that the havoc of war and the battle's confusion a home and a country should leave us no more? their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution. no refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: and the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. o, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand, between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation; blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land praise the pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! then conquer we must, when our cause is just, and this be our motto: "in god is our trust" and the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! >> [applause] let's give a hand to to shanell [applause] thank you very much.

. >> last of all we're here to celebrate this project itself and as mentioned it's so fitting on memorial day weekend to be celebrating this holiday today and thank my father and for serving in the air force nobody in our country who serves our country in the military deserves to be homeless on our streets and no family in san francisco should be homeless on our streets and this project is addressing both of

those and the mayor's pledge cannot be understated and the affect of mayor lee's leadership is incredible and thank you everyone for being here and look forward to getting this project built. thank you. >> now i'd like to introduce jess konzinski for the 30-year effort to end homelessness for families and individuals. thank you jeff for your work. please join me in welcoming jeff to the podium. >> thank you all so much for being here hamilton family center is proud to play a small part of raising five $5 million for homeless veterans and families and deeply

grateful to all of the institutions who made contributions to this project and i had a front row seat to see how hard he worked to make this happen and getting communications all hours day and night weekends and evening and he's really passionate about this project and i also want to thank our mayor, ed lee for his leadership around the issues of affordable housing and homelessness here in san francisco i'm so proud to be raising my daughters here in the city and with incredible know how to solve some some of the city's most difficult social problems and the hamilton family center is working to end family homelessness and for veterans and their families as well here in san francisco and we've made some incredible progress in the past year or so and thanks to

partnerships with google and the san francisco unified school district and especially with mayor lee and his administration we've made some really incredible progress and in fact the waiting list for family shelter here in san francisco has gone down in recent months [applause] so what that means is not too long ago over 280 families these are parents with their children were waiting for for 9 months or more to get a shelter bed and now there's less than 150 families waiting less than 6 months to get a shelter bed and we have a long way to go to get that number down to to zero and i think we can get there and i think mr. mayor i hope to partner with you and to get that number lower than a hundred by christmas we can make that happen [applause] i'm happy to be working in a city where we're not working on the

margins of this problem we're setting big goals to end family homelessness and making progress towards achieving those goals and this project is just one example and this is a wonderful day for the city of san francisco thank you all for coming to share in this great milestone. have a great day. [applause]. >> i'm not that good [laughter] now, mr. rick welz on a hot day and the golden state warriors continues with his skills to give back to mission bay to make sure the new development in this neighborhood is built with the neighborhood in mind. help me welcome him. >> [applause] thanks so much tiffany. everybody watch that game last

night? [applause] mark was there. listen, it's such an honor for the warriors to be joining this effort to house our homeless veterans and we talked to sf city a lot and ron a lot and and i think this conversation about this project might project might have been the shortest one we've ever had and absolutely the warriors are answering and after all we call ourselves the golden state warriors and i think it's the best team in sports it translates across all cultures what that concept of a warrior is and it's really only rioting that right that i think we do our part to support the true warriors in our community the men and women who served our country and today i don't think if you know it but today is an anniversary of sorts 3 years to the day that