plastic bags, and the plastic bags that do get through the system can wrap around the recycling equipment and can also contaminate the bales of paper. et that is it. thank you. supervisor mar: there was a video that was not able to work. can you share something about that? >> the phone books, because of their weight, they are kind of -- there is a screen, and it has spinning stars, and the paper floats up the incline, and bottles and cans drop down onto a second conveyor belts, so the phone books will either drop down, where the bottles or cans ago, where they will just sit and spin on the equipment and kind of jam up the screens, so we have to stop equipment and get them removed off before we can start processing again, so we try our best to get them off a be acquitted before they get to the stars screens. -- get them off of the equipment before they get to the start -- star screens. supervisor mar: i want to read a few excerpts, and the note is from an individual who resides in a unit in an apartment building and states that each year, 35 sets of phone books get delivered to our buildin

i had a copy delivered to my doorstep which was in a plastic bag. i took the plastic bag off and i read it and it was fascinating what i been missing. there are many museums that we have in the city. i thought it was very useful to have that available. there are many people in my district who would benefit from that information who don't have access to the internet. i look at both ways about the value of the limiting of the yellow pages in san francisco. also, this legislation got me in touch with many of my constituents around the state of california. i would like to get more information. i would welcome more time to look at this. we are looking for an implementation date that is longer and i would support the intent of legislation as well. thank you. >> thank you. >> i believe that more analysis is beneficial but i'm really curious to know if you denied -- if you did not see it was valuable to analyze the impact before sending it back, would that yield new information? >> as i said before, i don't think our analysis would reveal that has a signifi

to thank san francisco for all the work they have done as leaders of a green city, from banning plastic bags to green building bench mark ordinances and zero ways. this is yet another opportunity for san francisco to take the lead. in closing, the industry may suggest an opt-out policy, but we already know that does not work from seattle. yellow pages cost the city $1 million in disposal fees right now. if your bank wanted to date $1 million out of your account, would you allow that to allowan opt-out option? i do not think superior do not let the industry do this to us again. we thank you in advance for your support. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i represent russian hill neighbors, and we are a very large neighborhood organization in the city, and at our last board meeting, -- actually, our past two board meetings, we had a unanimous vote, which most of you know is unheard of when you have 28 people trying to come to one thing. to support this legislation. our buzzwords were waist and green -- waste and green. \ we felt like what has been mentioned throughout

san francisco restricted the distribution of plastic bags at supermarkets and drugstores.ve bags are readily available, as plastic bags contaminate our recycling system. similarly, we restricted the distribution of styrofoam food containers that food service establishments because there are recyclable and/or, possible alternatives -- compostable alternatives. this will reduce waste and reduce the size of san francisco's overall waste stream. also, as you will see shortly, phone books are problematic in the recycling/sorting process. phone books are a valuable information resource, and like all resources, they should be treated with care. this ordinance will increase the value of all phone directories as an information tool by distributing them only to people who use them and will help us get one step closer to our goals. i like to call in a few department of the environment staff to comment on a few aspects of the legislation. first, you will hear from our residential zero-waste coordinator. he will talk about the impact of telephone books in the waste stream. then you wil

they were covered with plastic bags, so that we had to remove the bags in order to see that they were framed in, and there were windows, standing outside, there were windows on the south side of the second floor and also the roof, and that is all i have. later. commissioner hwang: i want to disclose that i also did a site visit, and all of the things that president goh observed, all of the bags on the windows. i did not observe the framed in windows. commissioner fung: i will disclose that i made a site visit. i walked through the main building from the street rule, and i went into the rear yard and entered into the rear structure and buildings. -- i walked through the main building from the street. vice president garcia: i climbed the steps across the street on divisadero so i could have a vantage point. director goldstein: thank you. >> good evening, president goh, commissioners. i am the applicant. we bring you a beautiful project. you are our last hope. i beg you, please, do not leave us with a design choice by the city that we will not be comfortable looking at for the rest of th

those exposed are asked to shower and place the clothes and shoes in plastic bag. the authorities say the exposure levels pose no long-term risk to health. one survivor said he was in water. >> i felt i was dying. i was pushed into the water. but my thoughts of my family, i decided to make every effort to survive. >> reporter: nearly all the houses and buildings in the area were swept away by the waves. in this town, local officials are unable to contact 10,000 people, half the population. >> i'm looking for my daughter. our home is gone. she wouldn't know where to go. as other family members are safe, i only hope my daughter is alive somewhere. >> reporter: rescuers are struggling to get to thousands of people stranded in areas that are inaccessible. 1.7 million households have no power. 1.4 million households have no water. roads and bridges are damaged, and 66 landslides have been recorded. in the 65 years after the end of world war ii, this is the toughest, most difficult crisis for japan. >> reporter: the prime minister also said electricity would take days to

and is on these overpasses were a brand new a mattress in the plastic bag has made its way. people underneath the overpass of no knowledge of this cleanup. for them, it is business as usual. whatever the case, i ask what their plans are of thomas and jennifer. they will find a new home. i asked others why not just go to a shelter? after all, it is only one block away. most say there is no privacy or they will be treated poorly. and i asked thomas how he became homeless. his response was a few bad choices. and the san jose, stanley roberts. f >>pam: if you have a comment or story idea for stanley, you can email us at peoplebehavingbadly@kron4.co m we will be back after the break. (music) [ banker ] when ashley's violin teacher told her parents she was gifted, they were thrilled. she's a natural vibrato. oh. we started saving for this music camp in vermont. so i told them about some of the wells fargo online savings tools like my savings plan, which helps them set up and monitor a savings goal. until we found out that maybe her teacher uses certain terms a little bit loosely.

mostly it is filling up plastic bags intentionally being thrown away by rec & park workers. scavengers that come out for redemption serve the city's best interest. i hope that a way to be figured out to incorporate these scavengers into the report -- recycling program. please go with the resolution. supervisor mirkarimi: next speaker. if there is any other public comment, please come up after this speaker. >> i think the neighborhood organizations should have the goal of serving the neighborhood. the recycling center opened during a time when the environment was at issue. the issue has never been more important than helping. the recycling center has taught our community how to recycle. it is an icon of our neighborhood. i cannot think of any issues that are as important as protecting our environment. we should not do anything to discourage protecting the environment. the recycling center meets that meet. i encourage you to continue the good work that the city does to improve our environment. the recycling center is just one tool that helps us do that. keep the recycling cent

we have approximately a 85% use rate, meaning we get these yellow pages dropped off in plastic bags, in the lobbies of buildings, that we are asked to distribute, and approximately 50% of those who go to places to want to them. that is a certain number of books per distribution that are not used. even two times per year, that would be 1400, or over 10,000 yellow pages books that are not being used. the one thing i would have to say also is one thing we are challenged with is getting to zero ways, and we want to bring our overall operations, -- we want to green our operations. for the tenants who live in the buildings, we would be more than happy to provide information to our tenants and to the distributors so that the folks who really want them actually get them. and the final thing that i have to say as a director property management is the one thing that remains after the tenant leaves is the yellow pages. in thank you. president chiu: before the next person, let me call of the next number of yellow speaker cards. -- let me call upper -- up the next. if you could all proceed to lin

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mostly it is filling up plastic bags intentionally being thrown away by rec & park workers. scavengers that come out for redemption serve the city's best interest. i hope that a way to be figured out to incorporate these scavengers into the report -- recycling program. please go with the resolution. supervisor mirkarimi: next speaker. if there is any other public comment, please come up after this speaker.

the types of things we heard when our city stood up to ban star from containers, to phase out plastic bags. these are the sorts of things that san francisco hears often when we are trying to take the lead and really standing koran an inconvenient truth, standing up for the environment, standing up for our neighborhoods, in standing up for consumer choice. it was mentioned that there were hundreds of letters sent in to the board of supervisors in opposition of this measure. i can assure you that i have received communications from thousands of individuals that actually supported this legislation. i know there was a rally last week where there were a couple hundred folks who attended, many of which two were employees of the companies that are being effected here. again, i can assure you, but there are tens of thousands of residents here incidences " -- residents here in san francisco who are fine with getting their phone books when they want to get them. i did want to talk about what was raised by industry lobbyists and representatives. i sat down with industry representatives on a number of

waste or phone book recycling, for that matter, and it does follow along the same lines as the plastic bag legislation and styrofoam legislation, what have you, so that is a big reason why i speak in favor of it. there has been some comments about how phone books are distributed to all the offices downtown, the office workers downtown, that those numbers get skewed or something like that. the phone books are a reference book, and downtown in the office, each parent eagle does not have their own lawbooks. they share those reference books. likewise, i think the phone books can be shared by many different office workers, maybe a few books per for, but if there are 100 on the floor, they do not need that many phone books. copper -- finally, being deprived of disaster information if we do not have that information in the phone book, we can point out that it is in the white pages. i do not want to make light of the situation in japan over the last week or two, but it is clear from the numbers we have heard today and the testimony that we have heard today is that we could build a seawall of the g

police say he was hurt when he picked up a plastic bag containing a bomb wrapped in a newspaper. it was on the lawn of his next door neighbor. federal investigators say there is growing evidence that this was a random act. >>> showing support for the san jose sharks could land you on the wrong side of a turf war. that's according to san jose police who say some gangs in the area are wearing teamjerseys and colors to represent their ties to the city. police say the two largest gangs in san jose usually identify with the colors red and blue to distinguish between members. now gangs from both sides are using the sharks to claim san jose as their own. >> both from time to time wearing that paraphernalia to kind of distinguish what they're representing. >> police say there have been shootings and violence involving gang members wearing sharks gear. now some san jose schools are considering banning students from wearing sharks jerseys and hats. but police say it's usually the lifestyle and not what you're wearing that leads to violence among gang members. >>> governor jerry brown is ex

but put it in the refrigerator, plastic bag, open it up a little bit and always wash it before you enoind a lot of dirt in the spinach because some growing areas might have had a lot of rain. spinach, still a super food. loaded with nutritional value. great for us. and if you buy it like this and saute it right, it is delicious. and i'm tony tantillo, your fresh grocer. always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. popeye had it right. >>> imagine reaching your 100th birthday. so how would you celebrate? >> i would settle for walking and talking, but one grandpa took it up a notch. maybe two. would you believe he went sky diving? why not, right? that's 100-year-old fred mack, bringing in the second century from 13,000 feet. he is a senior thrill seeker after all. he took to the skies for the first time on his 95th birthday. and he figured, hey, let's do it again. at 100. >> how are we doing? >> still alive. i was putting it off for five years. but i lived anyway. >> this is fred's second jump. he hasn't ruled out jump number three, either. by the way, there are nearly a half million c

and often seal that plastic bag. although that's not really essential for the technique. well, by cooking it at that low temperature for a long period of time you get perfectly even cooking and you never overcook anything. >> rose: i want to see a couple other pictures here. one is a parasitic worm in a cyst in a pork muscle. >> yup. >> rose: there it is. so i have a whole pile of microscopes and i take photograph us there microscope so this is one of the pictures i took. two points here. the first is food safety is important. this is a trick nella worm. this is why your mom probably taught you cook the hell out of pork. >> rose: right. >> turns out you don't need to cook pork anywhere near as much as people think. but don't eat rare bear meat. >> rose: next is a lobster with the exoskeleton remove. >> what you eat inobster are the muscles, t musculature. so grant, one of our chefs, laboriously took all of for shell off carefully, carefully, carefully. and you can see all the muscles without seeing the shell. >> rose

you go from people in white small acts with clipboards to the three stooges running around with plastic bags on our feet in radioactive right so there isn't really a stability in the world that's required to operate a nuclear industry and so we should all try to stay away from those locations as much as possible ok so you're advocating basically stay nimble stay mobile stay alert this is why i hate real estate as an investment for decades and second if somewhere some crazy stuff goes on all right well that's all the time we have for me. you're all of thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert and i want to thank my guests meter or la if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser report at r t t v are you until next time this is nice guys are saying by elf.

>> with a plastic bag. commissioner miguel: supervisor, thank you for coming. appreciate what you are doing on this. i had a question about some of the uses that would be prohibited. i know on west porthole we have ground level medical and dental uses and other type of uses and we have and i would assume that financial would be categorized separately from office. is that correct? >> financial being? >> banks or other financial institutions. >> so they're fine. and there are some where you do have some selective medical uses and i know a movie theater would be disallowed which i am not sure anyone is going to go and put a movie theater but it might not be the worst use. >> are you kidding? i encourage that, but that would be over -- >> yeah, it was listed as a number of things that would be prohibited. but not limited to. >> not prohibited. >> maybe my paperwork is not accurate. but noticed that one. board boa commissioner borden: i think this is spot on and most people stop at gary and turn around and don't continue down the street and farmers' market is a huge

dumped into work on house graves sometimes end badly hastily constructed coffins sometimes even in plastic bags with the government saying ok this is the best you can do for now this is all that we can do and we will later exude these people and give them a proper cremation so you can imagine you know considering the stress that their relatives have already gone through you can imagine being told something like this can do to people psyche this is their very negative side but on the other hand the resulting to be optimistic about we've already seen some of the roads rebuilt you already seen some of the train service is restored as well as of course what you can this is the figures which are already receiving which is more than ten thousand people there and seventeen thousand people missing most of whom are presumed to be dead as well. as our r.t. if you go out of what happens you can update on a fan on our twitter feed if we have a look now at one of his or latest tweets he talks about interviewing a top japanese official who blames big energy companies view fukushima crisis can also stay up to

into what the mass graves sometimes an end badly basically constructed coffins sometimes even in plastic bags with the government saying ok this is the best we can do for now this is all that we can do a little later exude these people and give them a proper cremation so you can imagine you know considering the stress of their relatives have already gone through you can imagine what's being called something like this can do to people psyche this is their very negative side but on the other hand the result of things to be optimistic about and we've already seen some of the roads rebuilt you already seen some of the train services restored as well but of course what you can't dispute is the figures which are already receiving which is more than ten thousand people dead and seventeen thousand people missing who are most of whom are presumed to be dead as well. well artes and you go to keeping you updated on japan on our twitter feed we have a look right now in one of his latest tweets it talks about interviewing the top japanese official who blames the big energy companies for the fukushima cris

they then put jewelry in a plastic bag. the store owner say they keep the most valuable pieces in a safe which was not broken into. >>> and the commissioner is supposed to hear that mold has been killing sea gulls. the birds have been dying on pier 94. it's unclear if the recent deaths are related to other birds. researchers found mold inside the breast cavity of the birds. >>> it was light showers, not a big deal but certainly slowing down traffic. this is how it looks right now on live storm tracker 2. you can see the light showers outside. the showers are going to basically linger throughout the next few hours then they are gone. basically this is what we're talking about in the forecast. it was just a light rain event. i did get nearly .10 of rain, which is pretty light. this is what the rain looked like through the bay area just about two hours ago. just seeing drizzle, light sprinkle. trace amounts for all of us. tomorrow will be partly cloudy and cooler, the weekend we've got some clouds back in. looks like rain sund

dumped into work on mass graves sometimes end badly hastily constructed coffins sometimes even plastic bags would be government saying ok this is the best we can do for now this is all that we can do a little later exude these people and give them a proper cremation so you can imagine you know considering the stress of their relatives have already gone through you can imagine what's being told something like this can do to people psyche there's also fear that amongst those populations which are still living near the coast which are likely suffered the job might be infection spreading and so on so this is their very negative side but on the other hand the resulting to be optimistic about we've already seen some of the roads rebuilt you've already seen some of the train service is restored as well so the japanese in terms of restoring the infrastructure have been very fast and very efficient but of course what you can't just leave is the figures which are already receiving which is more than ten thousand people there and seventeen thousand people missing will most of whom are presumed to be d

police say he was hurt when he picked up a plastic bag containing a bomb wrapped in a newspaper. it was on the lawn of his next door neighbor. >>> the public utilities commission reached a settlement of $3 million yesterday. they held a hearing to see if pg&e should be held in contempt for failing to provide all of its documents after the san bruno explosion. pg&e says they've collected thousands of documents describing the pipelines and are looking for more. >>> firefighters in san carlos have offered to take a 10% pay cut to help the city zeal with the budget challenges. sancarlos city officials recently voted to stop sharing fire services with nearby belmont after 30 years of doing it. >>> a judge is siding with the city of oakland. this one involves the police and the city's public safety parcel tax. a woman from oakland first sued thezy over measure y back in 2008. she claims the city illegally collected parcel taxes, even though police staffing had shrunk. although, the judge has tentatively said the city has done everything possible to correct the problem. >>> super model

the owner of one shop called police after he saw a man go into the bathroom with a plastic bag.ght that a drug deal was going down. turns out the guy had a bunch of mice. the suspect is now charged with disorderly conduct, harassment and animal cruelty. >>> if you want a better night's sleep, look at your sheets. but when it comes to picking out the sheets, do you know what to look for? when buying new sheets, where your cotton comes from can make a difference on how it feels. look for cotton that provides an extra long staple cotton fiber. typically egyptian cottons are the best. the threat count can round from 200 to 1,000. don't be fooled by thread count alone. >> it can have a high thread count. with an inferior cotton, it will still feel rough. >> put your hand inside and feel it. you can tell often by the feel if it feels like a better quality. >> it is also advised to avoid synthetics by 100% cotton. make sure you know the size of your mattress before you buy any sheets. >>> san jose's cinequest film festival opens tonight. john tuturo's documentary is called "passion." h

police say he was hurt when he picked up a plastic bag containing a bomb wrapped in a newspaper. it was on the lawn of his next door neighbor. federal investigators say there is growing evidence that this was a random act. >>> time now 5:55. the san francisco giants will decide later today if ryan wilson, their star closer, will play opening day. right now manager says the odds are less than 50/50 wilson will be ready on thursday to face the dodgers in los angeles. he strained a muscle on his left side about two weeks ago. he'd missed the time earlier in spring training. he had tightness in his backful wilson stayed at spring training camp in arizona to keep on with his rehab. >>> all right. what's effecting traffic this morning? let's check in with sal. >>> all right. we do have traffic getting a little bit busier now out there. traffic is moving well on 280, 880 at the commute there northbound 280 traffic well getting up to highway 17. also this morning we're looking at the grade 680 southbound looks okay as you drive down to the bottom of the hill. and this morning's drive on

in fact, save the bay recently worked with places like the city of san jose to ban single-use plastic bagse morning commute with mike to see if things are getting better. >> happy anniversary to save the bay. and happy talk like william shackner day. i'm doing it like chandler bing. let's look at the 36 and 87 where we have slowing. we have 32 up to tully road. we'll go to the traffic live shot right now and move over to the area of the sunol grade. we are southbound 680 here. fog is developing over the hills into free month. we'll watch for the congestion out of liver more with a heavy drive off 580 and the altamont pass. the bay bridge toll plaza has a slowdown back to west grand avenue. we'll completely ignore that i ever tried to do a william shatner impression. >>> thank you. 6:53 right now, the man charged with shooting 19 people in tucson will undergo a mental evaluation. a judge has ordered arizona shooting suspect jared loughner to undergo a mental evaluation in a specialized facility in springfield, missouri, as soon as possible to help determine if he is even competent to stand

is received, our robot arm finds the correct label drug, prepares the proper dose in bar coded plastic bagsarge band. the system was cranking them out about every minute or so a new prescription would fall in the band. the robots are bigger and faster than humans, they could fill prescriptions of less time. our robot from the sea in a hospital gives dr. patients and nurses to focus on patient care. so far it's working they say over 350,000 doses of medication have been prepared by the robotic pharmacy was no error. gabe slate, kron 4 news. >>jacqueline: live look over downtown san francisco, visibility is improving but still over cast and drizzly. this will continue into tomorrow. we'll be right back. >>pam: last week we showed you this, kamen in san jose during a segment of people being badly. the encampment is outside the front door of a number of false. today stanley roberts asked the city about the encampment on today's edition of people behaving badly. >>stanley: i showed you this video of deplorable conditions at a homeless encampment in san jose. and encampment that so close to these

save the bail recently worked with the city of san jose to ban single use plastic bags. >>> 5:54 right now. let's check the morning commute now with mike. >> good morning. we'll take you to livermore where we see a slowdown on the other side of the screen. it is on the right side of the altamont pass. 15 minutes registered on the travel times. overall, the 60s are holding nicely near the dublin interchange. this is highway 4. the 20 is registering at l street with the extension of the slowing over to love ridge. typical build for that portion of highway 4 as folks come off the antioch bridge. as you get over to the bay bridge toll plaza itself, a pretty smooth drive at the toll plaza. the volume is targeting to pick up. no major backup and no metering lights are coming down the east shore freeway. we also have a nice flow off the cartinas bridge. an 18-minute drive, but i want to call out the ashby sensor. you are tapping the brakes down through berkeley through emeryville. from the south approaching the bay bridge, oakland is looking good. 880 is picking up the volume. a little slowin