larry ellison had his ear right away. they stuffed the agenda. they profit from san francisco, and i will tell you -- their agenda is not our agenda. me? i do not give a fuck about race. fat is not my agenda. we need health care. we need services. we do not need more rich white men and their agenda. [applause] >> before our next speaker, the next three people i would like to call up. [reading names] >> i am director of shelters for episcopal community services. episcopal community services. i am here

larry ellison had his ear right away. they stuffed the agenda. they profit from san francisco, and i will tell you -- their agenda is not our agenda. me? i do not give a fuck about race. fat is not my agenda. we need health care. we need services. we do not need more rich white men and their agenda. [applause] >> before our next speaker, the next three people i would like to call up. [reading names] >> i am director of shelters for episcopal community services. i am here to plead on behalf of the people that we serve, on the cutting the contingency but it is closing the next or shelter during the day along with the resource centers. i would encourage decision makers to think about homelessness and folks on the street. it is never just homelessness. folks that we serve, it is homeless and mental illness, homelessness and being seen and not having family. homelessness and unemployment in an economy that is really difficult for the best of us to compete in. homelessness in so many other issues, and what we are asking with these budget cuts is 334 pe

oracle ceo larry ellison blamed his neighbors for blocking scenery.he neighbors refused to cut the trees between his home and the bay but now the neighbors are along the. >> we were hoping to have this very private matter, you know, obviously it wasn't -- didn't become that way and we're really sorry about this whole thing. we are cutting our trees. >> ellison uses the pacific heights home for entertaining. he is expected to be there more often during the america's cup race he is bringing back to the bay area in 2013. >>> the "san francisco chronicle" will release an app for the ipad today. it will include articles from each day's edition with photos, videos and other content. subscriptions cost $5.99 a month or just about $60 for the year. or newspapers with tablet editions include the "new york times," "wall street journal" and "usa today." >> i'm still one of the old school guys that likes the newspaper. >> do you have an ipad? >> we do. we tried to have the "chronicle" delivered to our house but we can't get it there because they put it out in the

larry ellison and team of investors. as these major projects and partnerships evolve and other developments in the future, i request the port of san francisco take a leadership role in order to gain support from all the parties involved from the creation of a public service leadership academy located at the port of santhis facility can introduction for our high- school students for the real working world cooperation required between public and private partner entities to complete entitlement and review processes successfully. these field study academies will offer students and future leaders practical experiences that can assist them in understanding the classroom studies as critical to meeting their college and career goals and how successful businesses and resources are built through shared vision and cooperation and provide healthy, constructive and creative jobs, families and communities. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i hope you are doing well and enjoying this a beautiful w

like this $70 million home built by oracles larry ellison or this seven bedroom 24 bathroom bill gates hide away so massive it has its own online virtual tour. when it was leaked that fellow billionaire mark zuckerberg bought a home, the world expected a mansion. instead, he bought this refurbished five bedroom, five path in palo alto for $7 million. and tabloids started wagging. >> mark zuckerberg leaving his new house. >> complete with polls, did zuckerberg get ripped off? absolutely no. >> there is a trend going on right now. what we are seeing in our area, we have basically newly minted high level executives. >> the palo alto real estate agent says zuckerberg's purchase is a sign silicon valley is hiring again. >> google is continuing. >> and who are they hiring? >> this is a younger crowd and they like to be in the mix. >> late 20 somethings who would rather walk to local bars and host backyard barbecues by the pool and that's exactly what zuckerberg got. they are also paying cash anywhere from $2 to $12 million. that's driving up palo alto real estate values. >> as long as prop 1

so the great number of people that are paying these higher rates are not the larry ellisons and the steve jobs. so as a result, pb and e said, let's make this more fair. let's cut the price at the top and raise it a little bit at the bottom and essentially what will happen is people at the bottom who pay a little bit more, new year's so many of them, will make up for the number of people. then they threw in this proposal that everybody should have kind of like a hookup fee, a special service fee, $2.40 for low-income people a month, $3 a month for the rest of us. that was uniformly rejected by the cpuc. they did adopt this system whereby there will be a reduction in costs, about a 17% to the people who pay the highest a mounts in the state, a slight increase for people on the lower end. that's basically what the story is. >> belva: how slight on the lower end? a small increase? >> a couple, three dollars a month. that can be significant to a person who needs that money to pay for a prescription or something like that. but what pg&e is saying, reality. now, all of this happens, and i think

. >> reporter: when larry ellison looks out his living room he sees the root of the problem.trees obstructing his floor to ceiling view of san francisco bay that neighbors down the hill have refused to trim so he should them a year ago. tonight, when i rang their doorbell, it sounded like they are tired of fighting. >> we have just been through a lot so we just don't want to, we just want to let this go. >> reporter: he bought his house more than 20 years ago for more than $4 million, the von above ners bought their $7 million home 7 years ago and, since then, their three reed woods and acaron butler a have shot up several feet. they have caught ellison's workers trimming branches without their permission. they even asked the city to protect their 80-year-old acaron butler a as a landmark tree. but now they are backing down. >> we are hoping to have this very private matter and you know obviously it wasn't -- didn't become that way, we are sorry about this whole thing, we're cutting our trees. >> reporter: we're from cbs5 tv. >> i'm sorry, i can't help you. >> reporter: know

larry ellison blamed his neighbors for blocking the prime scenery from his san francisco home. the trees. neighbor refused to cut the redwoods and acacias that grown between his home on the view of the bay but now the neighbors have had a change of heart. >> we were hoping to have this very private matter, you know, obviously it wasn't -- didn't back in way and really sorry about this whole thing. we are cutting our trees. >> ellison uses the pacific heights home for entertaining and is expected to be there more often during the america's cup race which by the way he is bringing to the bay in 2013. got to tri the trees. >> i'd live there with or without the trees. >> not much to look out, out there right now. >> what's the deal? >> that's what everybody is asking. what's the deal with the rain? we continue to see showers moving in across the bay area. we got a big pacific ridge of high pressure. we'll see storms rolling in. today no exception. more scattered showers today. >> oh, lawrence. >> showers continuing tomorrow. thursday we'll catch a break. i think the storm on friday