[applause] you're still here, too, and we are here to announce this with you. you have spent incredible hours working with our team at hunter's point to make this thing happy and successful. we thank you for your incredible contributions. [applause] >> our housing authority. we have had many conversations, and we continue to have those conversations with hope. you keep reminding me, don't just keep talking about hope. deliver it. my privilege. we join you, and commissioners here today delivering on that hope. it is not just about promising. we have to deliver. we have to deliver. and we are creating new partnerships along the way. did you know about this capital campaign that we are doing? it is not just on h.u.d. h.u.d.'s contribution is just $30.5 million, but that is just the beginning. there is a group of people working behind the scenes that gavin newsom asked to come together. that is the hope s.f. capital campaign group headed by james, the vice president of programs for the s.f. foundation. pam. thank you for being here. she is there. rich gross, from t

here everything here is a closed military zone where here there how many meters from here everywhere not able even if. we believe that the one of the most basic commandments is what we read in the very first verses of the bible that all human beings are created but suddenly located in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or rich or poor it's very it's a point of that both men and women if we really believe that if you are going to internalize it and we have to honor and protect the human rights of every human being including health and. eric asherman interpretation of the bible is rare in israel. the palestinian olive trees are standing on biblical land and in the biblical hills this land is called slabs promised to the jewish people according to the south lives. i was yesterday they came when i got back here at four pm so they came and stole the letter i was a school the black covers like those. they stole the. they stole cutters and knives in the all of us over there did you see the all it says. to the settlers do this yes the sudras school all of them did this i have been away

thank you up for being here. and now, it is my privilege to invite mayor lee to say a few words. >> thank you, sarah, for your leadership here and jamie for your board leadership as well. i'm here along with board president david chiu, supervisor cohen, who represents his district, community leaders that are here, extremely valuable city officials, police chief, juvenile probation official as well. i see tom. welcome, welcome. [applause] tom has historically been a big supporter of young and thank you very much, tom, for being here too. i am part of a growing course of people who are appreciative of this fantastic decision that was made by c.y.c., in concert with bay view residents to open up an office here in the middle of the bay view district. you know, when you look around and perhaps if you look at the last few years, maybe other people decided they would leave. maybe they felt comfortable, this wasn't a place for them. and then the violence started about a year and a half ago. i know all of the supervisors

great to be here! >> we also have retired captain jook -- jack mccloskey as well as phil egg anl -- eggan. we -- egan. we love being part of this city. our halt is off to lily hitchcock coit. i stand here today with ian, a descendant of lily hitchcock coit. i must say even though i don't smoke cigars or gamble, my hat is off to lily hitchcock coit. she was a visionary person. . maybe a little ahead of her time. i know if might have been an active member of the fighter department. . but she's near and dear to the heart of everybody in the 2ke789 thank you for the generosity and thank you for coming out and celebrating with us. >> we are very, very honored to have members of lily's family with us here today. down below, barbara. right there, barbara coit is sitting right there. and i'd like to introduce barbara's son, mr. michael coit. >> hello. what a remarkable day. what a grand place. coit tower and telegraph hill never disappoint as a tranquil outlook over a bustling city and busy world. i never tire

i am so glad to be here.s a growing body of research that shows we can make the schools -- the streets safer, and one of the ways we can do that is reduced speeds. if all else fails and a collision results, this speed limit saves lives. i am pleased to be here and to continue to work with the rest of the city, the rest of the organizations, and to know that they have the support of the mta board in these very important initiatives. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, director. the mayor and supervisor mar mentioned that there's different city agencies working together to make this happen. i think they both mentioned the health department has been a very strong partner, and i want to work knowledge there great work. it is their research that i want to reiterate the exponential decline in the likelihood of serious injury or fatality for every 5 miles that you lower the speed limit. it is a powerful tool to ensure safety in the streets if in the unfortunate event, despite all of our efforts, there's impact betwe

thank you all for being here. see you next year. ♪ [applause] [applause] ♪ pleasant -- [applause] >> [inaudible] you had just watched two dances from our dance academy. the first was a traditional harvest dance, and the second is the one that the little girls perform. i hope you enjoyed it. our academy is located throughout the bay area. thank you. [applause] >> the next dance is going to be by shafsa dance company. please give me an opportunity to welcome shafsa actually doing a solo dance. [applause] ♪ ♪

next speaker. >> i came here from france to start my business here. because i believe it's the spark of innovation. hundreds of companies are created at pier 38 for the past few years. some of them saw wonderful exits ranging to up to millions of dollars. this is a unique place that a lot of international people are coming to start their business. i have been to london, paris, madrid, amsterdam and tel aviv and any of those international cities would die to help us if they could

right here. you are standing in between which would be trucked out and delivered here. this is a great manufacturing plant. it will all potentially about 34 employees that will be here. they are all making great salaries and will have a great health insurance benefits and 401 (k) matching funds. that is a great addition to our work force. so an important at the actual manufacturing is based instead francisco. i would say that our city because it you -- our city is so important because in games, you are manufacturing here. biotech, you are manufacturing here. we have done a lot to invite companies that want to manufacture here, especially for this type of entry where i think the workforce is even more absurd. you're going to have people here that can really work with their hands, work with the design firms that the heath company has attracted to it a buy, high class both dinner wear as well as ceramics. i am so glad to welcome them here to santa and cisco, right on the northeast seor of the missio

kenny is here, too. steve also mention this, but the engineering company that installed the fire protection system that we hope never gets used. steve also mentioned the architect. anthony and michelle worked closely with local 38 and nibby brothers in helping us to obtain all of our permits. thank you very much. other friends of local 38 who came today. from district 8, supervisors got weiner -- scott wiener. fiona ma. mark leno was not able to be here but he did send a proclamation. thank you, mark. we also have a former supervisor for mr. tdistrict two. thank you for being here. we also have a state senator, leland yee. he also brought a resolution for us. that is also inside. we appreciate it. the mayor mentioned bayview police station, our neighbor to the left. we want to thank them and the captain for everything they did. we want to thank you for keeping an eye on our building and apprentices. [applause] he also mentioned our neighbors to the right, the san francisco housing authority. after you se

he has been here since he was 13. he has worked his way up from being garbageman, seller, and now being manager. i want to thank you for what is going on here. he makes the market work. another new person is kate crepps. kate put on his party. she deserves a hand. she is a wonderful person. she loves what she is doing. and she loves this market. that is what makes it so great. i would also like to talk about a gentleman who has been working here for a little over 10 years. his name is michael cartwright. i hope that he is close by. this gentleman was found on the bricks somewhere. he needed a hand. the city did that for him. i want to introduce you to him now. >> hi, everybody. what she said was true. 10 years ago, she gave me -- i was out here on the streets homeless and smoking crack. i was shooting drugs and drinking anything to get high. i came down here and started working at this market and loading the trucks. something in her gave me a chance. other people looked over me, she looked to me. she gave me a chance.

this circle here. there are flags behind here, 35 flags representing the nations of the international coalition. this is where they'll be holding a formal ceremony. they're taking this day seriously. it will start in ernest about 5:00 local time, about 8 1/2 hours ahead of you. there will be a moment of silence at 5:16 local time, the time the first plane hit the first twin tower. what does this mean for the men and women here, for a lot of them it is the reason they are here. it's the reason they join the military. there are others i spoke to who were in elementary school on that day. they remember getting out of school early and watching tv and having their parents explain to them what terrorism means and what terrorism is. and there are many of these guys, some who were in the pentagon at the time of the attack who have feelings that are very raw, very real. they talk about every day, thinking about that day, thinking about that moment of the attack and what it means to them professionally as well a

of supervisors here, the mayor here, along with business. to do that and fulfill that collaboration with all the other city agencies working together. again, it will always be -- it really takes a whole village of effort that goes on in order to rebuild a whole community and fulfill all of the promises. i am glad to be here today, glad to celebrate this. i am so thrilled that tim, you have fulfilled a long lost promise for this neighborhood, and you have done it the right way with hiring local people here so that they can have an build upon hope and have something for their families. i also want to think the police department here as well. we have a member from our babies station here to keep everybody's safe, making sure we have public safety as well as a thriving economy along the corridor. thank you very much, and let's celebrate this. [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much, mr. mayor. i find the best thing to do with promises is to be very slow and consider it to about making them and then to keep the ones that you do make with a p

to come here. of course, our work with twitter is very helpful. we are still on the move. we are still very excited about what autodesk is doing and still supporting every effort we can to not only keep employees here but offer opportunities to expand because the product and the innovation has to be working together. the companies come here -- it is not because -- there is a little higher rent that you have to pay, but look at what you get. that is why salesforce has about eight floors here of great work they have. they will eventually -- they already are designing their whole campus in mission bay and using a lot of products here and their clients and customers using a lot of products to do that. i am excited to announce this and suggest to you that it is important, and my number goal is to create jobs and make sure that jobs-creating companies are here, they stay here. look out -- in six months, they will be right back here. we will make another announcement. hopefully another great contribution.

here in san francisco.ine were interested in purchasing. the house was located in the castro area. i talked to supervisor wiener about it and the address is 893 elizabeth. this house i became interested in actually as a result of some relationship with a doctor of mine who i have mentioned in the past, mentioned about male circumcision and brought up some other issues like lost property, things getting lost in his property and then a window getting broken at this property and actually leading now to the issue of the ark. the ark is this creation that i came up with in order to assist african millennium development goals. i wrote a letter and i sent to the united nations mainly because -- president chiu: thank you very much. >> thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hi, supervisors. this is great. it's like seeing the best dressed of the dccc. i'm representing peer 38 and the tenants, there are 40 businesses that occupy that area. there are 20 new businesss that come out of that area and i wa

and if you can start here, then you'll grow here, and we want to make sure you stay here. >> that iswesome. >> thank you. [applause] >> i do not know if ever one hurt, but he said our cities successful based on our constant engagement with the technology companies, something along those lines. you speak plainly for politicians, and it warms my heart to hear that. thank you very much. >> keep reminding us what we have to do. >> i will. i do not have a block, but i am going to tweet at you. how many people now are convinced that either you're going to vote for the mayor or you would if you were a resident of san francisco, raise your hand? lead to more than a unanimous. that is excellent. >> the neat thing, too, is we're not just a city on the west coast. we are an international city. so companies like zynga that are established, they know that they have an opportunity to establish a worldwide headquarters in san francisco. we are an international city. we understand -- just like this week, we're hosting the third senior officials' meetings in preparation for the asian- pacific economi

we have some elected officials here today. i appreciate all of you being here today.going to start with mayor lee. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. good morning everyone. it is my personal pleasure to be here in the bayview. as i watched these kids danced this morning, i know all of you felt as i did, this is for them. they inherit the earth, this community, and everything we do today, everything we believe in is all for them. so we want our neighborhood improved. we want our whole community improved. i want to thank the people here coming with us. senator leno is here with us this morning. i have been here all morning with malia cohen looking at the projects that we have in this area. she is part of that young talent and i get to work with, as well as scott wiener. the board of supervisors have been working with me these past seven months, and we are trying to get a lot of things delivered. not a lot of political stance. getting stuff done. fulfiling old promises. promises that you heard decades ago. you saw me smiling this morning as i embraced t

you have fresh food and clean food right here. this is part of a general effort we have for the city. supervisor kim and i are working hard with our neighborhood associations to make sure that the mid market is alive, safe, full of the arts. we are making central market revived with arts, burning man, the great arts foundation, all of the performing arts. we will make sure the storefronts are alive with things to do and see. when we worked on the twitter deal to make sure the companies got here and to advantage of helping us revitalize markets street, that was just the beginning. you are already seeing some of the tech companies coming in. these are tech companies that have the heart of our city as their interest. they want to create the jobs. we want them to create jobs. we want them to do it right here for our youth. we want to make sure our residents have a chance to work in the wonderful buildings they occupy, to work with the technology companies we want to bring in, and work with the arts to bring in a revised central market

way from here. it's along a nice way there's lots of trees sometimes they make nice exhibitions there. from different parts it's very good because the streets are very wide. on the big streets you have on the ground too and also you don't have to wait so early in the walk around here as much as these. places lanes or some sadistic to. be in such a big cities people will brett. like this there will be music for example. it's positive all of course moving to the picturesque cut you off bridge now understand stereo attracts lots of tourists day and night display stream. the end of two thousand and four. provides the best shots of the city in the areas of the city i think. is in my opinion. thousands of pedestrians every day. you. actually get it the wrong way around the red brick form a chocolate factory which you see to the end up in my seat century. you go across the stage you can see the opposite. of december one thousand nine hundred. ninety. the famous full confession respect has been completely r

and i'm not up here to be redundant, but i'm up here to tell you there is racism here at city hall, heresan francisco. san francisco is the most racist city in the united states. you say ace, why do you say that? well, the redevelopment started here. not only here but in the fillmore, i call it the fill no more. but the thing about it, here we have this great big institution that's been put on freeze, suspended, but you still have people on your board still want to let this thing continue on. just check your history. it's no mystery. now, i'm also here to say one thing about your support, we're going to have a big community meeting in the western addition called the roll call. we're going to call d.p.w., dcif, all the departments here at city hall under the immigration report that's institutionalized. department heads are supposed to be meeting and talking about it. nobody of -- none of that has taken place. violations. violations. and if this administration, if you all don't adhere to that yours truly is going to go elsewhere outside and get someone to investigate not only one departmen

the water came up actually here, right up in here.uld have been about chest high on me. i'm going to take a walk over here, if i can. the water has an oily sheen on it. it really is -- it smells, terrible smell to it. it's absolutely polluted. and tony's going to join me, and a renovated church back who are you turned into a home. that's your place? >> yep. >> reporter: how many feet of water in there? >> about 3 feet on the sanctuary floor. >> reporter: 3 feet? did you lose a lot of stuff? >> no, being down here, you have about 48 hours notice, you get your possessions. >> you knew the water was coming up? >> yeah. >> reporter: insurance? you're okay? >> yep, flood insurance covers it. >> most of the people here, most of them have to have flood insurance because this area notorious for flooding. that's the one piece of good news, but again here, it's going to be several days and absolutely weeks if not months before they can get all of this cleaned up. fredericka? >> that's the worst trying to clean up after that flooding. and even w

and then here we have over here plastic. what do you use plastic for when you bring power into the building? >> that's not plastic. that's a nonmetallic rigid conduit. >> excuse me. it's not plastic but it's not metal. what is it? >> it's made out of p.v.c. and is suitable for underground for services and feeders and for pulling conductors in under the ground. >> i know in my neighborhood, in the inner sunset, we just had all of our utilities undergrounded so what used -- you know, one of these overhead service entrances is now underground that would have been the stuff that they switch it to. >> that's the cost effective method. >> excellent. >> when you put in a service, you also have to ground it. you connect it to the cold water pipe. you have to run supplementry round rods. this is a typical ground rod. it's actually seized in copper, a steel round rod with a copper coating. you have to drive it into the ground so that eight feet is in contact with the earth. >> one of the allowed methods of grounding. is that correct?

here we are in a spectacular st. francis lobby. here is the clock. when people say "meet me at the clock in the st. francis." let's look at that elevator. >> ok, let's do it. >> here we are in the elevator installed as part of the expansion, and this is the way it was originally installed about 100 years ago. it has a manual switch just like elevators did back then, and it runs on dc power. this was from a time before elevators ran on ac power. >> when did they switch? >> decided to switch in the 1920's, so this elevator predicts that by about 19 years. the doors are also manual, so this elevator predates the use of automatic doors on elevators. >> can we take a ride? >> absolutely. going down. >> how many troops do you think this elevator has taken in its lifetime? millions. >> yes, this one probably has. certainly hundreds of thousands. >> very smooth. >> it really does run smoothly. >> there we go. take some serious operation. there we go. >> this is really beautiful. >> this is served by that old elevator we were just in. >> built at the same tim

you have young people here. you have senior citizens here. you have teachers here. you have nurses here. you have unemployed people here. you have young people who will be paying off student loans until their 40s. and if they lived in any other western democracy, they wouldn't be in hawk for half of their adult lives. this is -- i thought somebody put it best the other day when they said, the main reason people are down here is to reclaim their future. not the past. not even the present. but the future has been stolen. that's just how greedy these people are here on wall street. and so i just -- i'm honored to be part of this, and i'm glad that you have put focus on this. i'm glad that you put focus on the brutality that these demonstrators and protesters had to go through on saturday. it just -- lawrence, can i just say this? after what the individuals in these high-rises did back in 2008, where they crashed this country right into the ground and they just ruined it, millions more without work, millions lost their pensions, just total calamity and chaos for the las

wanted to say thank you for being here and bringing the community here into city hall.ays grateful when our mayor is here to join us tonight. thank you, mayor. i'd like to introduce the treasurer of the organization that's done so much work to make sure that all of us could be here tonight. superviser james camp, thank you for being here. also we have our president of the school board here, i think you're here some place. i'd like to droot treasurer of the organization who has done so much to make sure that all of us are here tonight and are able to celebrate on the weekend in may, carnaval. elena. >> thanks. on behalf of the san francisco cultural art trassdigs board of -- tradition board of directors, i'd like to thank everybody for being here today and it's been a lot of work but we're very happy to tell you that carnaval is very strong and we will be having a great carnaval this year on may 28 and may 29. but -- [speaking spanish] also the co-chair of the cultural arts committee and without our volunteers we could not have any of the events that we put out throughou

so i want to thank everyone here who is gathered here today. and because of all you in the room, you have contributed time, resources, advocacy, energy, to make this dream a reality. so thank you all for coming. i want to introduce some -- everyone here is a v.i.p. and i thank people for coming. they are behind me. first of all, mayor lee, mayor of san francisco. please give him a round of applause. [applause] >> and supervisor malia cohen from district 10. thank you very much. who is doing an awesome job representing district 10. we want to make sure she is on board. she's been a great supporter since she was elected to the board of supervisors so we thank you, again, supervisor cohen. with that, and one last person i want to introduce is randy lenit. randy is a graduate of college track oakland, a graduate of san francisco state university with a degree in civil engineering and randy was instrumentally involved in planning this entire building. you'll hear randy's story in a little while. round of applause for randy. and so with that, i would

thank you for coming out here this morning. i'm so excited to be here.e come and gone in the past that i was in these seats over here listening to the speakers commemorate, honor the memory and legacy of many of our an set of erps and the persons that have gone on before us and it is about time that we started to think about the legacy that african-americans have had and the legacy that the civil war has had and the intermingling between the two because it is with no easy feat that over 200,000 african-american soldiers fought in the civil war during a time when african-americans were denied the right of course their citizenship. can you imagine that? so i'm very excited to welcome you here to our great city hall. and as i stand before you, i want you to understand that i am your represent and if you have a chance to stop by before you leave and leave your contact information, so we are able to better communicate and keep the lines of communication open. ed high -- the high -- rm importance of plaque history months also reminds us of the power of all ame

way from here. but it's along a nice way there's lots of trees sometimes they make nice exhibitions there. from different parts it's very good because the streets are very wide. on the big streets you have on the ground tunnel so you don't have to wait so you walk around here as much as these. places lanes or some sadistic to. be in such a big cities people will brett. like this there will be music for example. it's positive all off course moving to the picturesque country last bridge now under state stereo tracks in lots of tourists day and night display stream bridge was built at the end of two thousand and four a glorious landmark that provides the best shots of the city in. areas of the city i think this bridge that connects. the island. is in my opinion one of the most thousands of pedestrians take this route every day amazing views. crossing from the old to the new many tourists actually get it the wrong way around the red brick form a chocolate factory which you see here at the end up in my s

ever since the fire that occurred here -- unfortunately, there was a fire here a few years ago. my predecessor gavin newsom asked me to come down here to work with the arts community, come up with every idea that we could, to work with the office of economic development to please key dollars here. we are working with so many organizations working our way up this great street, finding out that there was a lot of history to showcase. we wanted to make sure that we used our artistic ability, the ability to forge artistic programs, and that is why we invested in this foundation. they are taking over the old theater. now these murals. i want to thank the people who got our two artists here. their work is presented here, in this unveiling of these advertising murals. and we are going to do more of this. we want to do all of this in partnership with neighborhoods. that is what randy is all about. i loved working with him because he and everyone in this neighborhood wants to take pride in where they live and work. we see kids growing up in the tenderloin. they need to know the history o

down here. you. know you i'm convinced to become prime minister who continue to thoroughly modernize our society. certainly whether you expected it or not whether one is not this is tremendous is this is a story of a. factory it's going to be discussing this i'm sure all of the social networks. i can't wait to get on to the streets to see what's happening there how russia will react to that of course united russia party very positive and happy with today's announcement and the rest of the world we're going to be seeing a lot of debates arguments raise and criticism about this major news that is coming out of this annual convention of the united russia russia's ruling party but now i mean it's not going to be a smooth ride all the way ok so we have a step in the presidency of two thousand and twelve but again we have a parliamentary elections december the end of this year some say that the united russia party has a lot of work to do so when over the top support of the parliament your views on the. the

who are here.i graduated from laurel high school, which is the school where the majority of students are students of color. apart from my caucasian friend, i don't think a single one of my friends came from a non-immigrant family. the other thing growing up in this climate is how polarizing the issue is. it seems like there has been a battle between people who are pro immigration and people who are anti-immigration. but i think, especially seeing all the faces here, just putting faces on this issue makes it so there aren't two sides to this people, that there are two grooms of people opposed to each other. somewhere down the line, all of us came here at some point, except the native americans. but yeah, i think like my mom said, just getting our voice out there, really are part of the same society, and i think our society has faced a real moral crisis where we have family values that are opposed to what our policies and laws say, and we are splitting up families. i have friends who were born here a

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breaking news here on r.t. the ruling said a rotation russia's prime minister vladimir putin will run for the presidency next year his candidacy was put forward by dmitri medvedev who agreed to lead the ruling party and the country's. if you are just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is on the line from moscow with me the recent breaking news today and tonight prime minister putin will run for the presidency of the two thousand and twelve elections was made at the ruling united russia party as i knew all convention president medvedev said that he will head the party in a parliamentary elections and is ready to lead the government if they win. the historic speeches first. united russia party russia and the world knew that somehow one way or another in the figure that he is to russia the stability that he brought may have some kind of life in the political world here in the country exactly how it would unfold no one knew and more importantly no one really expected at least the people here that it would b

none of these will be here. we have retrofitted three elevators so far and now we're doing the outside cars. >> so this is what will be replacing -- >> this will be replacing the generator controller and control system. we are down to about 15 or 20 relays, down from about 100, which means much less maintenance. this thing had been running for about six months now, but we still have eight cars here to do. >> great job. >> we have looked at past the elevators and present. now let's look at the future. we are taking a look at some of the most exciting technologies in elevators. george, tell us about destination elevators. >> this is the technology of the future. probably the biggest single investment in elevators. san francisco has embraced the technology more than any other city in the country. a big advantage with us is passengers get to their floors sooner and there is more opportunity of customization of features for individual service. four issues of security and accessibility, this is a big advantage over tr

and once they get here. people who are here are enjoying themselves in these casino resorts. >> that's good to hear. >> now, i should also point out going into the weekend, we've got about 13,000 hotel rooms here along the mississippi gulf coast, primarily in biloxi. but we were envisions about 85% occupancy rate. and on friday with the weather reports, particularly when the storm took on a name. >> vincent creel, we thank you very much for that update. >>> we want to get an update on tropical storm lee now with alexandra steele. part of the problem is that the storm is slow-moving. when is it going to make landfall? what are the biggest issues with this storm? >> rain and wind, certainly flooding the biggest issue. about to make landfall and will do so this afternoon. here's the center of circulation, the northern portion of it beginning to come to shore. by the afternoon, the full body of the eye will come ashore. but it's really the eastern side of it that has all the heavy precipitation. but you heard hi

i'm here to speak about 1731 15th street. and i appeared here last week for the hearing. spoke at public comments about the same building. and i addressed myself and others that we have grave concerns about this building. we are requesting that permit be rescinded. from the beginning of the process we've been perplexed about why a project with such a magnitude of issues, procedural issues, could have been issued without proper reviewing procedures. we now have a better sense of what's going on here. an article published yesterday by the online news site, the building owner states that he plans to renovate and lease the property to recovery survival network. a nonprofit that manages nine single-room occupancy hotels in the mission and the tenderloin. recovery survival network operates a sober living facility based at 3032 16th street and is used to house the jerry hotel. and it's this property right here. it surrounded by properties owned by the jolish family. three large properties, which if included that property, would be a parcel of 160 feet by 122 feet. the area is zo

here on r.t. and of course you can log on right now to all tito calm and watch the show continue . over the next few minutes or so. this is all see live in moscow. we'll continue now with the news this hour the un's most powerful body should demand an end to the violence in syria move all parties into that's russia's view outlined by the foreign minister during a meeting with his brazilian counterpart on sunday. we strongly believe it's unacceptable to instigate the syrian opposition to continue boycotting suggestions to start a dialogue this is a call for it peter believe in scenario the brics nations will not allow this to happen the un security council will not tolerate how its true solution is being implemented. russia sharply criticized the latest sanctions against syria calling them harmful and ineffective in solving the crisis in europe imposing an oil embargo of further steps to force president assad and the five month crackdown on protesters and u.n. claims more than two thousand people h

here. this is a very tight community. most of these people remember where they were at 6:11 one year ago today. during the ceremony which is about to begin any second, we will start off with a bag pipe player. then there will be a moment of silence and then following that, we will have members who had loved ones die in that explosion come together and they will ring the bell that you see behind me on that podium in honor of the people that they have lost. following that, we will hear from the mayor of san bruno and we will also hear from different clergy members out here for this ceremony. as we mentioned, this ceremony will begin with bag pipe players any second. we also want to know that they are offering grief counseling out here because it is, as you know, the one year anniversary. so people will be able to duck into the cafeteria here on campus and receive free grief counseling if this ceremony becomes too overwhelming or emotional for them. as we mentioned, let's take a look at the cr

this is what they were trying to do here is a fire break here.addition to the heroic fire break that stopped the fire on van ness. >> dynamited around here. not just earthquake or fire damage, it was dynamite damage. >> one of the interesting stories is the amount of dynamiting they were doing in some cases was so excessive it was damaging buildings that survived the earthquake and fire because they were blowing up the building 2 blocks away. the classic story is on the post office. it survived the earthquake and fire fine, but didn't survive the dynamiting of the next-door neighbor's building. >> they threw up flaming shards. and set the buildings alight. >> for an old steel frame, you see the beam and column and you can see the frame is shown there. on the side of the building, it is more solid with brick. the older steel frame correct relies on participation of the infill masonry and other stuff in there. they new steel frame building 101 california the high-rise down the block relies basically on the steel. you don't have that infill brick be

in 1906 although almost no houses were here.e can expect the same action? >> i think you have to different differentiate, but you may not get as much damage here as you would at the shore line or san francisco bay. this is a rough site -- >> if you're going to be out in richmond, it's right there. >> yeah. i have heard that along ocean beach here and a few blocks in, there are some special hazards because of the fact that there's water underlying the ground and so on. is that -- >> yeah. there are hazards associated with anu$quake. obviously the firstçó one is ground shaking which we talked about. then there are other gee owe logic hazards and that's where the sand turns to quick sand, especially the sands that are beneath the water level. other hazards associated is lateral spedding. after the soil lick -- becomed and flows, the dense --ification. >> if i eat a box of cereal and it's full, it's two inches down. >> that's true. damages associated with those phenomenas are severe. you've seen pictures along valencia street where