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helpful because it taught me accountability and showing up for myself. since i stopped using i have healthy friendships. my job here with san francisco community health center and trans lives and work ing with other transwomen is what keeps my recovery. i never imagine i had the life i have i'm living proof that rey is . >> good afternoon. we're here today for a virtual town hall regardi monday, janua2 missionand ninth streets. >> before proceeding i'd like dience and lisning audiee that this t h i cantonese and american sign lauage asl. the members of our community who speak those languages without suggesting a premature judgmen theppropriateness of the for used in this

incident. today's presentation wil include details from an officer involved shooting incident that resulted in t deathf4 year old g. >> s ereck chong and the san francisco police department. >> we recognize that our sworn duty asaw ecent officers imposes no more solemn obligation on us than to honor an. >> we also know that as police officers we are sometimes required to use force including deadly force at times in the performance of our duties we recognize to that officer involved shootings can have a traumatic effect on members of our communities especially for individuals, their families and loved ones who have suffered traumas of their own in encounters with the criminal justice system wherever it may be. to any of our viewers experiencing trauma from this incident or from the information or images that we will present during this town hall, please know that help is available to you. you may contact the san francisco department of public health crisis line at

(415) 970-3800. the trauma services. >> here's what we hope to accomplish today. first and foremost it is the san francisco police department's aspiration to be a national model o 21st century policing. we work to earn the trust of those we serve by committing to transparency and to the tenets of procedural justice in this process and in town hall presentations. >> procedural justice depends on the legitimacy of police as well as our entire criminal justice system. with these town halls we work to embody the foundational tenets of what procedural justice is all about. we will release the facts known to us at this time about this incide. we will try to do so in a manner that is impartial and neutral. we will answer questions from members of the public as well as members of the news media. and we will listen to public feedback. acting commander mark im will be presenting the facts of this case in a few minutes. before turning the floor over to him, however, i want to

emphasize that this incident is subject to multiple independent and ongoing investigations. as such there may be some information that we cannot release at this time either because the release of certain information is prohibited by law or because the release of certain information could compromise an ongoing investigation or because certain facts have not yet been established with certainty. >> in other words, we are not able to release unconfirmed information. next, acting commander mark emmert patio will include a daile ver f the fts ae kn thems well as audio and videoontent from the officer involved shooting incident cpd officers who responded to the scene were wearing department issued body worn cameras which were activated while they were on their way to the incident. consistent with our body worn camera policy, the department general order 10.11 you will see body worn camera a bwc video from those officers to multiple perspectives at the

san francisco police department. our commitment to support the full transparency has guided r offer involved shooting investigations and town halls for several years now. although our practices pre-date the enactment of many police transparency and accountability laws in cal■@nia, w believe our approach has remained consistent with the letter and spirit of reforms implemented by senate bill 1421. for police transparency and accountability sfp does commitment to transparency in this process will also be reflected in our release of information online. >> videos from this townhall including audio recordings from 911 calls and dispatchers and the video footage i just mentioned will be posted on spd's website. at san francisco police.org it will remain available there for public viewing. as a reminder all of feed's governing policies and

procedures can also be found on our website. >> san francisco police department directives mandate that we release the names of officers from officer involved shootings unless safety concerns argue against disclosure in this matter. we identified no safety concerns and acting commander mark in or released the name of the officer as part of his presentation. now i would like to explain the investigative processes for an officer involved shooting the san francisco police department has had a multi-agency response to the officers involved shooting incidents and each agency's investigation is independent whenever an officer ived shooting occurs in san ansc involving an off duty san francisco police officer, the following agencies are immediately notified the spd's investigative services detail or isp is the unit responsible for investigating the events that led up to the officer involved shooting. the spd's internal affairs division or i.e.d. is responsible for conducting an

administrative investigation to determine if the officers or officers responsible for the issues are in compliance with the standards and requirements of cpd policy. although the investigations of both cpd units run in parallel ,each has a stake and vested investigative purview and focus . >> each maintains a strict internal firewall to comply with legal standards and requirements. >> the san francisco department of police accountability or dpa conduct an independent administrate of investigation. san francisco voters created dpa as a successor to the office of citizen complaints with their passage of proposition b in the june 2016 election. dpa investigates all pd incidents in which any of our officers discharge a weapon within the course and scope of their duties and whenever that discharge results in an individual's injury or death. the san francisco district attorney's office independent

investigations bureau or ide is responsible for determining the legality of the officer involved shooting. based on their independent investigation and with you. the district attorney of the county of san francisco will make the final decision as to whether the officer involved the officers involved actions comply with the laws of the state of california. all notified agencies, dispatch investigators and appropriate personnel to begin their respective and independent investigation on this incident. finally, i like to point out that we take community feedback very seriously based on the feedback from prior officer involved shooting town halls. >> we will also take questions and answer them to the extent we're able. understanding that this incident remains an ongoing investigation, we will allocate one hour for public comments and questions. thank you very much for joining us today. and now acting commander mark in the officer involved

shooting or i guess discussing this presentation occurred on monday, january 27th, 2025. there are approximately 9:24 p.m. the os was preceded by a shooting that took place earlier on the same day at approximately 4:50 p.m. medics were passing by witnessed a shooting and rendered medical aid along with other bystanders responding officers contacted a witness who was driving northbound on ninth street who observed a male standing over and yelling at another male who was lying on the sidewalk. the witness then saw the male fired several rounds at the male on the ground before walking into 80 one ninth street. after interviewing witnesses and reviewing video surveillance footage from the area, officers tracked the suspect to the sixth floor of 80 one ninth street. during their investigation, officers located the suspect who had barricaded himself inside an apartment while attempting to establish communication with the suspect and placed him under arrest. and as occurred in this

presentation you will hear the following police terminology and radio code language commonly used by officers. 221 is a person what they got? 217 is a shooting. 408 is an ambulance. 909 is meet with a citizen. a priority a cls for service that involve serious incidents. these are emergency calls that require a rapid response because there may be an immediate threat to life or a substantial risk of major property loss or damage. blue blue is a term used by officers to alert each other of potential crossfire. bwc is body worn camera crisis hostage negotiations team is often referred to as c h.a. whose members are officers and sergeants who receive specialized training to assist in resolving incidents. their communications such as crisis and hostage situations barricaded individuals high risk suicide threats and high risk warrant service.

critical incident is a life threatening situation that requires a coordinated tactical response in a specific location . examples include barricaded individuals hostage situations and active attacker incidents. a full list of critical incidents can be found in department general order 8.01 dispatches the department of emergency management dispatcher and radio communication system . extended range impact weapon or 40 millimeter launcher is a less lethal force option. specialist team and tactical unit members use this weapon to deploy a projectile such as a 40 millimeter film baton or pepper ball chemical agent. these are designed to temporarily incapacitate an individual kinetic breaching tool or cpt is a specialized device used to force entry into a locked or reinforced door. specialist or spec is a member of the cpd specialist team which is an encore specialized unit within the special operations bureau consisting of

officers and sergeants trained to responding to high priority crimes in progress resolving critical incidents. dignitary protection crowd control waterborne operations and assisting the tactical unit with high risk warrant service . tactical unit often referred to as tac or swat is a full time specialized unit within the special operations bureau trained in responding to high risk incidents. tactical emergency medics or temps are san francisco fire department members embedded within the san francisco police department's tactical unit to immediately render medical aid at the scene of critical incidents. active shooter incidents and high risk warrant services. the precise chronology of this incident is currently under investigation. >> we are still in the very early stages of an administrative investigation that can take months to complete and our understanding of the incident may change as additional evidence is collected and reviewed. the items presented are approximate. the following is a summary of the events as they are

understood today and may evolve as further information is learned through the investigation. as of february 4th 2025 we believe the facts are as follows on monday, january 27th, 2025 at approximately 4:50 p.m. officers responded to the area of mission and ninth streets regarding a shooting that just occurred on scene. officers located a witness who was driving northbound on ninth street when he observed the shooting. the witness told officers he observed a male standing over another male who was laying on the sidewalk and then fired several rounds at the victim. the victim the witness then saw the suspect walk into 80 one ninth street. officers escort the victim as he was transported to the hospital by ambulance. the victim told officers he was standing in front of 79 ninth street when a male approached him riding a black electric bicycle. after coming to a stop, the male got off the bike and walked directly toward him. the victim told officers the

suspect pointed a firearm at him and shot him several times. the victim described the suspect as an asian male wearing a baseball hat and black clothing. multiple officers from surrounding districts responded as backup security perimeter and evacuated surrounding units that were occupied. members from the tacca unit also responded to assist. other responding officers reviewed the surveillance footage and were able to obtain a detailed description of the suspect including that he was armed with a firearm while watching the video surveillance footage. officers observed the victim standing on the sidewalk when the suspect approached him on foot. the suspect pulled out a firearm from his waistband with his right hand and walked toward the victim with the firearm lowered at his side as the suspect walked toward the victim. he raised the firearm with his right hand by simultaneously raising his left hand to grip the firearm. the suspect discharge a firearm toward the victim reacted by

raising his arms in a defensive position. the victim's body and he fell to the ground. the suspect continued to advance toward the victim as he continued to discharge his firearm while standing over the victim who was lying on the sidewalk. based on the video surveillance footage, officers tracked the suspect as he walked into 80 one ninth street and determined that the suspect entered unit 607 or 608. after further investigation, officers were able to identify the suspect as chief chong who lived in apartment 608. once officers determined mr. chong had not exited his apartment in lieutenant continually station declared a critical incident. officers assigned to the crisis hostage negotiation team specialist team and additional members of the tactical unit responded to the scene. officers began to formulate a plan to communicate with and take mr. chong safely into custody. crisis hostage negotiators made numerous attempts to contact

mr. chong for approximately two hours but mr. chong did not respond and remained non-compliant. members of the specialist team and tactical unit responded to the roof of 80 one ninth street in an attempt to obtain a visual into the unit. mr. chong was located members of the tactical unit made numerous announcements from the front door. members of the tactical unit made the following announcement quote san francisco police search warrant. resident of 80 one ninth street room six await. come out the front door with your hands up. you are under arrest if you don't come out force can and will be used. mr. chong responded by yelling quote get out of my building. a member from the tactical unit who is located on the roof of 80 one ninth street deployed two 40 millimeter foam baton projectiles from the roof of the building into mr. chung's window in an attempt to gain a tactical advantage and visual of mr. chong. mr. chong discharges firearm from within his apartment at officers who are on the roof of

80 one ninth street. after several seconds a member from the tactical unit returned fire and the noise occurred. a member from the tactical unit continued to give call outs and offered medical aid to mr. chong with no response. live video feed from a drone revealed that mr. chong was not moving and laying on the kitchen floor with the rifle slung on his body. officers used the drone to assist in clearing the apartment. a member from the tactical unit deployed rounds from a kinetic breaching tool at mr. chong's front door to gain access into his apartment at approximately 10 p.m. members from the tactical unit entered mr. chong's apartment with the tactical medic who assessed mr. chong with injury and he turman that he was deceased. the suspect in this incident is chaz chong and his date of birth is november 15th, 1990. crime scene investigators from the san school police department forensic services division responded and collected physical evidence

from the scene including but not limited to the following items to s.f. pd 40 millimeter foam baton projectiles the following seized items belonged to mr. chong one smith and wesson and then 15 rifle with one magazine loaded with 23 to 33 caliber cartridges one magazine loaded with 32 to 3 caliber cartridges. >> one magazine loaded with 2723 caliber cartridges, one six hour rsp 2022 semi-automatic handgun one glock 17 handgun with one magazine loaded with one nine millimeter cartridge, one rock island semiautomatic handgun with one magazine loaded with 845 caliber cartridges ten nine millimeter unfired cartridges one nine millimeter magazine, one magazine loaded with ten nine millimeter cartridges, one

ballistic armor vest, 523 caliber fire cartridge casings and two 2 to 3 caliber unfired cartridges. officers on scene were wearing department issued body worn cameras which were activated during the incident. the body worn cameras recorded the events as they unfolded. the independent investigations bureau or ip is an independent unit within the san francisco district attorney's office that investigates the use all officer involved shootings. >> any relevant video footage or photographs can be provided to iab by calling (628) 652-4420 or by email at sfd a hyphen ip at s.f. gov. dawg. all witnesses and victims from these incidents are encouraged to call ip at (628) 652-4420. the s.f. pd officer who discharges firearm in this incident is officer david

acheson, a member assigned to the tactical unit. the officer who discharges firearm is a member of the city pd tactical unit. tactical unit members undergo specialized intensive training that far exceeds the standard requirements for police officers. this includes advanced firearm proficiency, tactical operations and de-escalation techniques. >> their training is specifically focused on responding to high priority crimes in progress and resolving critical incidents. it prepares them to handle the most dangerous and complex situations such as armed suspects or active attackers in high risk warrant service. prior to joining the tactical unit this officer was also a member of the department's specialist team the pd tactical unit collaborates closely with the crisis hostage negotiation team to resolve incidents. all tactical unit members are trained in crisis intervention training. additionally, the tactical unit plays a key role in instructing

recruits at the police academy ,providing training and critical mindset coordinator response active attacker scenarios and other essential skills. >> today's presentation is provided in a multimedia format in an effort to provide a transparent and comprehensive perspective of this incident. the s.f. pd will provide audio from the 911 call surveillance video footage. bwc footage. crime scene investigation photos maps and related visual aids. our presentation today consists of relevant known video and audio at this time but it is not intended to provide all photos, videos or testimonial information related to this investigation. i will now provide a presentation of this incident using these multimedia sources and select points to increase the clarity for viewers. certain videos have been enhanced slowed down to allow for a better understanding of this incident. please note that this presentation, the enhanced videos and the unedited videos will all be available on the

s.f. pd website immediately following this townhall event as the pd policies can also be located on the pd website. prior to the beginning of each segment i will provide a brief description to orient the viewer to the time, place and location of the content about to be shown. you're about to see relevant video footage and learn about other evidence related to this case so you can have a better understanding of what occurred based upon what we know right now. a word of caution. the images and information you are about to see and hear may be disturbing. when a police officer uses force to arrest a suspect or defend against attack, the images are graphic and may be difficult to watch. in addition, there may be strong language used by those in the video. your discretion is advised especially for young children and sensitive viewers. we encourage those in need of support to contact the san francisco department of public health crisis line at

(415) 970-3800

. on january 27th 2025 at approximately 4:54 p.m. the department of emergency management received multiple 911 calls reporting a shooting in front of 79 ninth street. we will now play a911 call from a witness who saw the victim shot numerous times and the suspect fleeing in a building on the same block. some personal information provided by the caller has been redacted to protect their privacy. >> it was definitely not one with the exact location. >> again, i don't want to give up. we for you back then certainly not see nine victims shot in the head. be that as your 79 ninth street west second street was across

route and the market went up to the building. they went into the building and quite he went in to anyone like street or the victim that picked the victims on the sidewalk and people are helping him and putting a compression on it. give me a description of the shooter. okay. the shooter was a black guy wearing all black. i think he had a be. there were a lot of 30, 40, 45, 25 to 30 health policy call higher than me and i'm five six. okay. so we've been talking five six. yeah, i got a gun. did he have a handgun? black handgun. he walked up to the shop just like that. shot him. i have it on camera. we have cameras directly where the guy got shot by the officer

down. okay. don't hang up on me though. yeah. where did he go off? okay. but that's the stuff that went into the building to get upstairs. i don't know what for other people. he went in. i got the call victim right here. the police are here. that's it. okay. okay, i will. >> thank you. okay. >> we went out the night when one call from a witness who was assisting the shooting victim in front of 79 ninth street my spoke with this 1911 would come up to see the train mission to make sure somebody got shot. >> okay, well, we have the police are coming with shooting. oh, no, no, no, no. okay. are you with me right now? yeah. he's like oh, we're shooting back in the back of the neck

and back in his neck. okay, give me one second. >> so i fire at the paramedics by around five. oh, you guys see the police out there for that? yeah. yeah. okay. well, i come down. yeah, yeah. okay. flag them down. come on over. yeah, yeah. >> that was somebody apply pressure to his one. okay. okay. do you guys see the police? yeah. yeah, they already okay. all right, we can disconnect. >> thank you. you're welcome. >> we will now play 911 call for a witness who saw a male victim shot numerous times by a male possibly hispanic. this recording has been trimmed for brevity with no changes to his substance.

monday. >> i was just kind of when i felt like i shot emergency. um yeah so i just made it home but i was walking home from work and as i was walking home at nine and mission i thought come on. uh, shoot someone. i think he shot him like sounded like about six times 17. oh, sorry. what are the shoots one more time. two seconds. the three it was like have nine mission going to nine between mission and market. do you remember what the shooter looked like? yeah, he was pretty heavy but, um, he had a hat on look like he had like glasses on eye glasses. um, let's see. black white, latin, asian. i would i would say like he looked more latin but how tall? five feet. six feet is hard to tell. i would maybe somewhere in between those two. about how old?

20, 30, 40, 50 uh, maybe 30. maybe 30 something small medium or heavy belt 25 how do you do heavy build and what color was that, huh? >> oh gosh. what? maybe like i'm not sure i can't say. um, what color that, uh uh like like i don't i don't know. i will see what i can with him. i would call him like standing over the guy. he shot him like really casually just like standing up. right. boom boom boom boom boom. and i looked the first shot but when i looked i saw him finish off like last 3 or 4 and the guy was already on the ground look like a white guy with like a long sweatpants on and he was kind of like shaking and okay, looks like we have multiple officers on scene. thank you so much for calling.

you're about to hear the radio transmission from the air medic who was driving by and witnessed the shooting. >> my grandma went through it. unknown male just got shot on in the night. >> there is a man next to him still with a gun and need pd code three and a ambulance. okay. >> when i wait for i you're about to hear a recording of the call for service for the shooting incident as broadcast by dispatch two responding officers alert for curry party two 17 mission and i am i want to wait on duty 217 mission in mind unit two that someone was shot in the head there's a four waiting room suspect when in the 80 193 are waiting on a description suspect is 2000

black male 25 to 30 then taller than five six be any black clothing black handgun i seven calls now 1980 193 let's get out there in the field you may not believe that you have got 97 televising on the 217 a suspect that anyone nine three said he went in 81 and see that fire escape went on the third floor 517 is just like went into anyone nine she went out the back side escape i want to check in the back there young i see it be aware of going blue 16 we went out display a geographical map to illustrate the general area of the shooting incident on the unit block of ninth street along with this location in relation to the officer involved shooting the map will show a google satellite perspective as well as a google earth view

. we will now show bwc footage as

well as video surveillance footage from security cameras. i will introduce each video prior to playing in timestamps displayed on bwc footage are in coordinated universal time or utc. we're not going to play video surveillance footage showing the suspect riding and parking his bicycle before approaching the victim on foot as the suspect walked toward the victim he pulled a handgun from his right which been pointed at the victim and fired multiple shots at close range

. we are now going to play video surveillance footage tracking the suspect entering 80 one ninth street and walking up to the stairs to the sixth floor based on the surveillance footage it was determined that the suspect entered unit 607 or 608

. >> we are now going to play bwc footage of an officer who deployed two nonlethal 40 millimeter foam baton projectiles. >> now i'm going to go good visual inside. i don't see any movement yet. okay, send it out right now.

i want i want to round that like this yeah room yeah so far okay yeah yeah he's on the right for time one, two, one talk for us not that a third window the corner it pulls out the side bar we are now going to play an enhanced version of the bwc footage we just viewed which has also been slowed down. the enhancements highlight the deployment of the 40 millimeter foam baton projectiles followed by the suspect firing shots and then the officer returning fire

found it all right. you're right. what i want to round that like the shower room fire. okay. yeah. yeah. but he or or from 1 to 1 part got us not that we're not going to play bwc footage from the officer who discharges department issued patrol rifle at the beginning of the video. the first two bangs heard are from the deployment of the 40 millimeter foam become projectiles followed by the suspect firing shots and then the officer returning fire.

the right round looks like a heart attack. you got car you gotta got a window i just shot. i know we were part of a lineup

. we are now going to play an enhanced version of the bwc footage we just viewed which has also been slowed down. know what i like? how hard i can feel the car you

got gotta got that. we are now going to play bwc footage from an officer who was on the roof of 1288 mission street which shows the suspect discharging firearm at officers on the roof of 80 one ninth street towards shots fired

shots fired which are more we're not going to play an enhanced version of the bwc footage we just viewed which has also been slowed down. the enhanced version shows the muzzle flash of the suspect's firearm from his apartment

. shots fired, shots fired csi photos. >> this photo shows the suspects smith and wesson rifle and magazine unloaded in this photo shows the suspect's lock island handgun. >> this photo shows the suspect's glock handgun. this photo shows the suspect a six hour handgun. >> this photo shows two 40 millimeter foam baton projectiles.

this photo shows the department issued patrol rifle used by the officer in the office. >> this concludes my presentation. i will now introduce the commanding officer of tenderloin station, acting captain kevin noble. good afternoon. i am acting captain kevin noble of tenderloin police station. tenderloin station officers with the first respond to this incident. since this incident occurred i have been in touch with our city leaders and community partners to keep them updated and address any concerns i've expressed. this was an isolated incident and there is no further public safety concern as we move forward. i will continue to make myself available to our neighborhood partners and the community and will continue to address any questions or concerns they have.

for those who have further questions or returns, you can contact me at tenderloin station. i also invite you to attend tenderloin station's next community meeting. it will be held tuesday, february 25th at 6 p.m. where we can listen and discuss this incident or other matters of concern. thank you. >> the public comment portion of this townhall will now begin . the length of time for public comment will be one hour to call into the meeting. please call 14156550001. again, the number to call into the meeting is 14156550001. please enter access code 266 233612 five 4 pound pound. each public comment caller will have up to two minutes to speak.

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queue. >> we will conclude this town hall meeting. okay. i'd like to thank all of our viewers today. we had over 100 viewers and for all of you that tuned in, thank you for tuning in. as we have said in this town hall, this is about us being as transparent as possible. when these types of events happen. so thank you again. please stay safe and enjoy the rest of your evening

♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> the two largest bridges in the road, symbolizing pioneer and courage in the conquest of space and time. between these two great bridges, in historic san francisco bay, here's tribute to the achievements of our time. he's a dream come true, golden gate international exposition on manmade treasure island. >> the 402 acre artificial island was build by engineers from 1936 to 1937 on the neighboring buena island. 300,000 tons of rock was used to build a seawall around an existing sand ball then followed

by filling the interior with dredge material from the bay which was consistent of modern sand. the federal government paid for construction ask three permanent buildings which would serve as a potential future airport. treasure island was constructed at the same time as the bay bridge and it was a project of works progress administration to construct this island, which was initially used to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was busy. >> it was going to become an airport after the exposition but it was turned over to the navy and turned over to a military base for the next 50 years. >> 1941, the united states army moved to treasure island as america prepared for world war ii. the island was a major training and education center with 4.5 million personnel shipped overseas from triangle. after the war ended in 1945,

treasure island was slalthed to be an airport -- slated to be an airport but aviation changed and the clipper were no longer in regular service, and the island was never developed as an airport. the navy continued their presence on treasure island. during the cold war years, the island was a myth training center and for military efforts throughout the pacific and asia. personnel trained on and shipped from treasure island and supported military activities in korea, vietnam and the persian gulf. >> the base was listed for closure by the navy in 1993 and the city began a process in 1994 under the redevelopment agency, forming a citizens reuse committee to look at potentially plans for the island, island's future. after the base closed in 1997, the treasure island development authority was created to develop and implement

a reuse plan. >> the navy has completed their environmental cleanup in that area and last week, the california department of public health issued a radiology unrestricted recommendation for that portion of side 12. it's a big milestone for the project. >> the treasure island development facility was setup to implement the master plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2011. >> given the importance of housing in the city, both the affordable component and the market rate housing, we felt that it was important to review what the housing plan is at treasure island. >> the development facility and (indiscernible) that oversees the implementation of the master plan to make sure that the

master plan, which was adopted by the board of supervisors and adopted by the city and after meeting, that's plan that the city approved. the members of the board was appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. [multiple voices] the (indiscernible) is very detailed plan. looking at the ecological aspects of the island, looking at the geotechnical aspects of the island, but also making sure that there is an ongoing of development that's in keeping with what the original plan was, which is that we have up to 8,000 rooms of housing and there's retail and hotels. but also that there is open space that's created so it's an overall plan that guides the whole development of treasure island and the buena island.

>> materials used during the construction of treasure island severely compromises the integrity to build structures. in today's geotechnical engineers standing, treasure island soil is being readdressed for soil stabilization for future development. a mechanical stabilization process is being used to consolidate the liquid fashion of the mud and sandy soil. >> because treasure island is a manmade island, we have to do a significant amount of soil improvement before we can build new infrastructure and new buildings on the island. in the foreground, you see here, it's a process called surcharging we we import additional topsoil to simulate the dead weight of the future buildings to be constructed at that site. so this is causing bay mud that underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is complete, then this soil will be

removed to the intended finished floor elevation of the new structures. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> in the 1989 loma earthquake, the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. pretty much uniform across the island. loose sand material used to build the island, whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. >> one of the processes to further stabilize the loose granular ground, a dynamic rate is used to densify the soil by high frequency mechanical vibrations. >> the rig in the background has four h-piles that goes down through the upper 50 feet of sandy material and as they vibrate, they vibrate causing that san material to consolidate and settle so as we do that

process, we observe about 18 inches in settlement so the ground level around that equipment will drop by 18 inches, so this causes that same type of event to happen through mechanical means rather than through a seismic event. >> the dynamic vibrant compaction rate vibrates the soil every four square meters and moved along to the next section. to further assure stability, tamping is followed around the site, compassion takes approximately three to four months to complete 12 acres. once the compassion and tapping is done, it's settled ask using laser alignments to assure a level service to build on. >> i think that every city when they have the opportunity to do something that is as large as treasure island because treasure island is five hundred acres and

it depends on their needs at that time and in 2011 to now, the most important are thing for the city is housing. there's two aspects to that master plan. one, was the new district for san francisco. 8,000 units of housing, which is all levels of stability. the other (indiscernible) is 300 acres of open space and parks. and actually, it's the largest addition to the park system in san francisco since (indiscernible) 300 acres and this is a tremendous gift to the public, both the housing, which we desperately need in san francisco as well as an open space and park system which really is going to be worm class and it will attract people in

san francisco but attract people locally as well as internationally. >> cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of san francisco and the united states navy. cmg has earned national recognition and numerous awards for merits and design, social impact and environmental stewardship. >> we were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded the exclusive negotiation agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and architecture group and we joined that team to work with the developer around the city and community to come up with a plan for treasure island. >> so there's quite a lot of open space in the master plan and there's a couple of reasons for that that's pragmatic. one is that the amount of area that could be converted for private

use on treasure island was very limited, actually it wasn't allowed at all because treasure island was previously public open waters and protected by the tidal and trust act to be redevelop for public use. but there was a land swap that was allowed and approved by the governor of california, governor schwarzenegger to be put on a public trust for a one to one swap to be taken out of the trust to be developed for private use such as residential and that amount of land was 89 acres which leaves a bunch more space that can't have housing on it and the question was, what to do with all of that space? there could be other public uses that allowed such as conference centers or museums or universities or things of that nature but what made the most sense for this location was to have more parks in a really robust parks and open space plan and that's what led us to the

plan we have now. >> planting strategies for treasure island and buena island are to maximize habitat value in the park areas wherever appropriate and where we can to create comfortable at the pedestrian scale. there are these diagonal lines that go across the plan that you'll see. those are wind row trees like you see in agricultural landscapes where they are tall tree that's buffer the winds to create a more calm areas down at the pedestrian scale. so of course, we do have some areas where we have play fields and surfaces where kids need to run around on and those will be either lawns or like you see in norm at sports field. >> related to where the housing is on the island and its convenience to the walk to the transit hub, i mentioned we're trying to create high-quality pedestrian -- and the innovations of treasure island is called the shared public way and it's a road that runs down

the middle of the neighborhoods. it's a curbless street, cars are allowed to drive on it but pedestrian can walk down the middle of the street and the cars are to yield the right-of-way for pedestrian and it's intended for streets where there's a low traffic volumes and the traffic speeds are low so while car was allowed, there's not a lot of reasons for cars to go on that street but it's to create a social street that's much more pedestrian-friendly and prioritizes pedestrians and bikes. one of the interesting things is working with all architects that have been designing buildings in the first phase to encourage them, to create architecture that welcomes people to sit on it. it's wlm like sticking its toe out and asking someone to sit on its toe so buildings integrate public seating and places for people to hang out at their base, which is really, the opposite of what you see often times in this city where there's defensive architecture that's

trying to keep people off it. this is architecture that's trying to invite people to come and inhabit it at its base. >> incorporated in the landscape architect of treasure island are wetlands, which are designed to factor in coastal erosion control from incoming sea level rise and natural animal habitation and stormwater runoff treatment. >> there's different kinds ever wetlands planned for treasure island and they have different purposes. they are stormwater wetlands that's treating the runoff from the island and filtering that water before it's released to the bay to improve the water quality in the bay and the ocean and the first phase of the large wetland infrastructure is built on buena island to treat the storm water from buena island. we might see that when we go out there. there are tidal wetlands plan for the northern side of the island where the sea level rise adaptation and flood protect for future sea level rise is held back away from the edge of the island to allow sea level rise to come onto the

island to create future tidal wetland which is helpful for the bay in the future as we see sea level wise flood out existing wetlands and there are some natural vernal pool in the wetland that's captured rainwater and capturing certain habitat so there's three purposes of the wetland primarily around water filtration and habitat creation. >> consumable sustainability was incorporated in the redesigning of treasure island. innovative urban farming is included in the plans to foster economic viability, conservation of water, and to promote ecological sustainability. >> the urban farm is 20 island. and it's a commercial farm to produce food. it's not community where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, it's commercially run to maximize the

food production and that food will be distributed on the island. and interestingly, the urban farm is tied into the on island wastewater treatment plan which creates recycle use for water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and we're trying to close the loop of water, food, and create a new model for sustainability. >> part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. and a total of ten will be on treasure island. water from storms, street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic materials as it makes its way back into the surrounding bay. this garden has been a model for future, natural filtering systems through out the bay area. >> whenever a storm comes through, all of the water, you know, it lands on the streets,

it lands on the top of the buildings, and at times it often collects a lot of heavy metals and greases and it needs to be cleaned and before sent back into the back. it goes into the pipes and stormwater drainage and put into our stormwater basin and then all of the plants and soil you're seeing in there, they are acting as a filter for all those oils and heavy metals and greases and all things that's coming off the roadways, coming off the development and so it's treated here in the storm water basin and then it's sent out into the bay as a clearer product and cleaner water which increases our water quality here and throughout the bay area. so the structure in the center of each basin is what we call the for bay. that's the point at which the stormwater exits out of the storm drainage system and into the stormwater basin itself. so the for bay is

shaped as almost a gate to kind of push all water out through the pipes, all of those rocks help to disburse it before it's sent into the stormwater basin itself. the storm water basin was designed to fill up to the height of the berm of the side you're seeing here. so this is juncus and these are well-known fresh water grasses found in any place around the bay area that you find standing water or in a drainage channel, you're going to find a lot of these junket species. this is a leave a lifter in the bio treatment. it soaks up a lot of water, to soak up the contaminants and heavy metals, so it's kind of our backbone species. this one is called douglas siana and the common name is mug war. it's a beautiful plant but doing the heavy lift and pulling, those

contaminants out of the storm water and pulling oil to help treat the water before its sent back into the system and back into the bay. this plant is known as salvia or hummingbird sage. it has a lot of habitat value in that it's a strong pollinator plant. obviously, you can see the pink and purple flowers which come up in the springtime and attracts a lot of hummingbirds, a lot of bees which help to pollinate the other species within the garden and throughout the rest of the island and all of those native plants. all of these plants are designed to be able to take a heavily inundation of water over a several day per like standing water for a long time. all of the plants can withstand that and honestly, thrive in that condition. so all of these were selected based on the ecological and habitat value but also their treatment and functional value for stormwater.

>> this is super tiny. >> it's very much a big part of our design and master plan for the development of the island. it was a navy base and a lot of navy housing on this island specifically for around 80 years and during that time, a lot of innovative species were introduced on the island, eucalyptus, a lot of different european and algerians plants were on the island. we wanted to bring in the native eye college here on the island before the navy started to redevelop it and introduce some of those invasive species so the species you're seeing in this stormwater garden in the basin and the upland area was a part of those types of ecology s that's trying to be returned to this side of the island but different other spaces through out the islands development. so whenever we started this process, we

identified a number of species of native plants that seem applicable to the ecology that we're trying to grow. there's 45 species, so a -- there's 15 species so they are hard to find in the nursery trade so we needed to grow it ourselves to achieve the biodiversity that's in the design here. as a part that have process, we brought on a nonprofit group called ledge, l-e-g- which is literacy for environmental justice. they grew those plants and put together the plant palates you see. >> most of landscape was inundated with invasive plant species eradicating species and having the plan on buena island and treasure island. literacy

for environmental justice, a community volunteer educational program involved with restoring local habitats and preserving san francisco's unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the redevelopment group to grow the 50,000 native plants to -- to repopulate treasure island. >> the city of san francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design, and architecture, and green infrastructure, but they really hadn't worked with flytive plants -- worked with native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. it was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants

are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage plants in some cases, some of the development work that occurred was actually going to destroy native plant habitat and we went in before the bulldozers and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were installed and dig them up,

divide them, hold them, of the 50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of them in-house and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners to do it. with the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 species and 95 of them are from the county of san francisco. about the other five are from the state of california. but the other 95 species really are the native plants that have been here for thousands of years. we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco. we used remnant plant habitats at hunters point and we used a lot of genetics from san bruno mountain. just to collect and process all of the genetics was a two-year process. and then

it was about a two or three year process to grow all the species. >> this is the infamous - it's a low, growing sprawling native herb and it's in the mint family and i'm rubbing my hands on this and it's extremely aromatic. it feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. it's edible. you can make tea out of it. it's a great digestive plant for settling your stomach. it has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. this plant is called dutchman's pipe. when in bloom, the flower looks like a dutchman's pipe. and another thing that's unique about this

plant is, it's the whole specific plant for the pipeline swallow tail butterfly. so some butterflies are able to adapt to other species and can use larva and food from different species. in the county of san francisco, there's only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. these particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the green infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to demolish all water tanks and build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. one day one of my nursery managers was down

here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant. and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. so the plants we're looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that area, it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old.

recently, the state of california just did special legislation to protect this plant. i think in its intact population on the island, there's less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in 1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is extremely important to me because that will help all the

animals come back to the island and make this place even a better place to live. >> i want to be here because these are people i know, so that was my first thing is just, like, i wanted to come here to help out and be with (indiscernible) and to actually put my hands in dirt. i feel like we as people don't work in army -- we don't see the benefits of plants, like, but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough, it turns into soap. that's cool. and we need those things. we need to know about those things. >> one really unique thing about this project is the scale. to use 50,000 native plants over 7 acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is

planned for treasure island, it sets the stage for what is possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change, sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of theain focus on triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors, publi transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrian-friendly, retaining an open space sent and providing an eco system that ca >> we need the transit to be

successful because if we had 8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the system. new on and off-ramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented. triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so there's a focus on using both bus and ferry service to get from the island to san francisco in the east bay. there will be a number of transit demand management tools that will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the -- to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the bridge and there will be a management toll to encourage the use of transit. >> all the market rate housing on the island, the price for residential unit whether that's a rental apartment or a for sale

condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the parking spot. so people can buy a condominium without paying for a parking spot. they choose to have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. that transit pass will function as a muni fast pass allowing people to take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac transit system and it will also provide unlimited access to the treasure island ferry. >> treasure island is going to

take decades to be fully build out. it's going to take some time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. we don't know what is going to happen in 50 years but i'm confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way it's sustainable, it addresses sea level rise, but also gives the public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill treasure island. there's economic, certainly, challenges and whether we're going to be able to build out all of what was desired in the master plan,

it will -- time will tell, but i think that the last ten years, we've been coming to this point. we are seeing incredible progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. market rate housing is being finished. affordable housing is being finished. and so, we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to fruition.

>> we can sweep by in front of a house in a matter of seconds. the only people who don't like

it are the people who get the tickets. >> this is a street sweeping sign. don't let it get you. pay attention. [♪♪♪] >> in the morning, when we first go out, we start at six in the morning or seven in the morning. we call that our business run. we sweep all the main arteries of the city. after 8:00, we go into the residential areas and take care of all the other customers. >> the idea with the street sweeping program is to get the leaves and the debris off the ground. >> we -- for not only appearance and cleanliness but safety as well. >> we will get anywhere from 2- 7,000 pounds per truck depending on the season and the route. the street sweeper and the choice of the use right now is an error sweeper. they have a motor in the back and it blows winds down one side

and carried by air into the hopper. what will mess this up is new -- large pieces of cardboard or sticks or coat hangers. anything that is more than 12 inches. the tube on the tracks is only 12-inch diameter. >> people asked what they can do to help to keep the city clean. there are people that letter. leaves are one thing. any of the garbage you see is from people being careless. [♪♪♪] >> one cars parked in the way, we can't sweep under the congress. to deal with this, we have parking control officers that are provided by m.t.a. and they go in front of our sweepers and pass out citations to people that are parking the wrong way.

once the sweepers sweep past in san francisco, you may park behind the street sweeper. we all know parking is a big issue. north beach hasn't been swept since the eighties because of opposition. but we are getting a lot of requests to sweep. basically our trucks are 10 feet wide. we stick the brooms out and they are may be 12 feet wide. >> there are a lot of blind spots when driving a large truck pedestrians and bicyclists and cars. and navigates this 22,000-pound truck through the city. >> we involve the public here -- to adhere to traffic laws. these routes were developed back in the eighties around the capability of the sweeper. things have changed since then so we have to adapt. luckily, public works is embracing technology and working on a system to alter our maps. this is literally cut and paste

-- cut and paste. we will have a computer program soon that will be able to alter the maps and be updated instantly. we will have tablets in the checks for all of the maps. we will send a broom wherever it needs to go and he has the information he needs to complete the safety. what is needed about these tablets as they will have a g.p.s. on it so we know where they're at. you do get confused driving along, especially the inner sunset. recall that to the be made a triangle. >> thanks for writing along with us today. i enjoyed showing you what we do and i urge you to pay attention to the signs and move your car and don't litter. with all. >> (music).

>> the ferry building one of san francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the

ld rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and

corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say

800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street

was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so

think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international

exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year

of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the

ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge

with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because

everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build

it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans

were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the renaissance of ferry building. >> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for

the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to

surface. >>

>> 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. cut. >> we are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. a place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and it's beautiful and it's been completely redone and been a gathering place for this community. >> i have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. that is not a joke. i live in an apartment building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. >> let me tell you handout you -- how to build a community garden. you start with a really good idea and add community support from echo

media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. this is great. it's about environment and stewardship. it's also for the -- we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. that is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. i don't know how they do it. >> there is acres and acres of parkland throughout golden gate park, but not necessarily through golden community garden. we have it right in the middle of

♪♪ ♪♪ i'm shawn quigley the founder of paxton gate that's where we are here on ra11sia street. >> it started more of a quirky gardening store. we leaned in this quirky side over the years and started with insects and learned how to hydrate them and symmetrical or natural poses. which then went into small taxidermy. i saw interest in the oddity side and purposely expanded that to more of a natural side oddity store. this is interesting mechanical parts in the beetle. african porcupine is cool.

they look at their eyes. i grew up on what many call a farm but it was in the to us. we raised animals it a garden i was involved with plant. had a rock collection. collection goes from your basic house plants to an air plant. avoid this term people happening they survive on air alone they do need water. i went to school for business here and finishing up at sf state. and this idea fell in my lap and masterfuled my interests and i learned a lot over the years. i like to view it as like a museum experience. rather hahn sales people they might be like dossants they are not hard selling you but more

conveying informing or knowledge about the products. teeth, that's the giant shark that would get up to 60 feet long. we are launching class we did them before the pandemic. a bunch of hand's on learn to do things classes that we are getting around to relaunching. this is our insect spreading kit. inside is a striped needles, forceps, instructions and the other tools you need to take up the hopy of spreading insects. had is a prize to many people is 80% of the stuff we get is from vendors or merchants. people think do you tremendous finding these. i don't get to do this. that is a still born kitten that

had one eye. the most common question is, is it real. almost everything is. we have replicas like the sabre tooth tigers and things that would be present low expensive to procure and sell or illegal we'll do replicas we have, lot of real stuff. ♪♪

forward/hospitality. >> heart of san francisco an aide so important diverse culture in the name for remarkable individuals like carlton b goodlett a man wheeg legacy is at the iconic lashed not just a man of intelligent his journey was far from san

francisco good had studies earning a mountain lake cut off road in child psychiatric a city that is is campus for staff's contributions a city with a very different place when dr. good let was around and you would see him on streets like the fillmore and what he did he mrs. minority healthcare to people who that did not have insurance or an ability to pay for that. >> dr. good working hard around city hall meaning he would load boxes with people and they would go to san francisco state mainly and other places as

well and protest these unjust treatments and unfairness of their system. >> dr. good was a america civil service activity with naacp and protested for the discriminations against blacks and public transportation and public housing and the reporter as most people come into the building today don't know who he was was district attorney know that not only was a physician, a activity but also an incredible cardplayer. in his spare time. >> and the won a number i published and the also ended edited another newspaper wells

fargo willie brown and dr. good had a close relationship in the early 90s several groups got together to his own dr. good and put together petitions and worked very, very hard to have the official address changed. >> dr. king's day of the celebration is in january, i got to call from mayor brown which i've known for in many, many years to ask me to change the street sign this is remarkable. okay. >> in january of 1999 right after the building reopened, mayor brown and i went outside at that moment it was still cold

street we shut down the word on the sign that read polk. >> put up the sign that said number one, dr. carlson carlton b goodlett white. >> i think that he earned a certain place in respect of all poem he was just a remarkable individual. unfortunately, we didn't live long enough here to see the street sign

>> (music). >> my name is - my business name is himself mexican america. >> i started my business a year ago the process was a year ago by business by waving (background noise.) about $1,000 and also guided me there the whole process. (background noise.) that was helpful i was already paying the construction and other fees for the restaurant the city we put together to

honor my city and comes with (unintelligible) on the (background noise.) and. >> (multiple voices.) >> and some go with ebbs and eggs (unintelligible) and a side of roadways and beans. and be able - have my restaurant here in the district of the mission is such an amazing i grew up around the mission area and respect to school around here and so i was able to come in as establish any restaurant here (background noise.) really a feels like