leland and sam bruno were among the last two. we're celebrating this -- this today, but we're also celebrating those that we completed in the past number of months and last few years. why does this matter? you'll hear in a second why this matters. creates a sense of place. a streetscape with the neighborhood and it com -- in a completely different way. it encourages and enlivens a pedstrone flow and -- pedestrian flow and sense of community. it slows people down. i have been here 300 times, if you think i'm exaggerating, i have not. i spent too much time. there's never too much time, but a lot of time at the sunny dale housing projects. the first few years i was mayor, i was down here for the wrong reasons, that was because of the struggles and frustration we had to deal with the issue of crime and violence and coming down back and forth, almost on a weekly basis to visit the families that were victimized by the crime and violence. we started to celebrate with tournaments and fairs. nevertheless this street neatedee needed help a

the investigation into sam bruno gas line explosion has ruled out one cause for thursday's blast.aid under the gas line did not contribute. they are looking at documents visiting monitoring sites, and looking at valves that have been preserved for evidence they are also conducting interviews. seismic records are being taxed to determine whether quake activity could have expected that gas line. will tran is live near the scene in sambar know which more. good morning this is still a crime scene that's why use the command center behind me there are plenty of police officers coming and going. they're making sure the public does not get closer than this. down the hall from where i am it is still busy scene trying to reach store telephone and cable service. they did manage to reach store power in that neighborhood. as far as the cause there are many others they have to look into. this is video we got from a gas station. look at the last left hand of your screen there will be a projectile coming off of the screen right there the last black project up. i spoke with the police officer they

host: with respect to the sam bruno incident, when you read about some of the stories coming out nationallyand let me see if i can pull one up here -- to help us understand what went wrong, this is the san francisco newspaper site, sfgate.com parks sysk gas and electric asked state regulators three years ago for permission to spend $4.8 million to replace a portion of the same natural gas pipeline that ruptured cast week and set a san bruno neighborhood on fire. the 1.4-mile portion to be replaced ran beneath south san francisco a few miles north of the blast site. pg&e considered it a risk. last year, pg&e wanted to start eight miles south upgrading, and that work would have cost about $13 million. neither project has come to fruition. the south san francisco project was moved down the priority list and the money spent elsewhere, and the southern project is still pending approval from state regulators. so we have two things going on, reallocation of funds from the utility, and a long approval process from state regulators. guest: right. one of the things to keep in mind, unlike highways, m

bruno gas line explosion. if the victim 58 year-old james franco he lived down the street from the blast. the sam broke up the explosion was front and center at the u.s. senate hearing today on capitol hill. in fact senator feinstein testified today calling for more federal. >> it doubles the number of pipeline safety inspectors from the current number of 100 responsible for 217,000 mi. of interstate pipeline to 200. each inspector is responsible for over 2,000 mi. of pipeline that's the distance from san francisco to chicago. >> guess linacs and has prompted nearly several legislative proposals to beef up pipeline safety including a plan that increases the maximum fine for the most serious violations involving deaths, injuries or major environmental harm related to oil and gas pipelines. the federal emergency management agency is turning down california's request for millions of dollars in federal disaster aid to help the victims of the pipeline explosion. if the agency said a police state and local governments and utility which owns the ruptured pipeline to cover the cost of recovery on its own

leland and sam bruno were among the last two. we're celebrating this -- this today, but we're also celebrating those that we completed in the past number of months and last few years. why does this matter? you'll hear in a second why this matters. creates a sense of place. a streetscape with the neighborhood and it com -- in a completely different way. it encourages and enlivens a pedstrone flow and -- pedestrian flow and sense of community. it slows