i hope you will consider the arguments made by joanna in a good light. i want to continue wonderful life that we have had up until this point. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is robert and i have lived in san francisco for over 25 years. but also was diagnosed with six months to live in san francisco 24 years ago. i am lucky to be here. he is a small jack russell terrier. if it wasn't for him, i would not be here today. i have very severe depression and desperation. there was a time when i had nowhere to satay. i was living out of a suitcase. i thought he oved m -- loved me so much. i love him so much. i could not accept or understand i could leave him. i knew nobody could take care and love him a and how much he brings to me. thanks to him, i go out. he forces me to go out a couple of times a day. one of the beautiful things in san francisco is that he was welcome everywhere, and i have to say, i came back years ago. and experience. a problem. having to call the animal control department. the second one was more recent, where a restaurant

mock them was joanna, a public sector worker. she has seen her salary cut by 20%. she said she is scared. >> we are very careful of what we buy now. every time we go to the supermarket, we are very careful. we go with a list, and it has been a shorter and shorter list. we can't buy anything for the children anymore. >> when school started this autumn, this family found a shortage of books in the classroom. just a week ago the government announced a property tax. the aim to raise two billion euros. >> for the scale of this area, it works out to 700 euros for this flat for a year in two installments. >> how do people feel about that? that is quite a lot of money for people. >> it is. the middle-class and property owners are getting outrageded. >> some have seen their salaries cut by 200 and 600 euros a month. >> due to the cuts, nearly 50% of all greek police vehicles and bikes can't be used. >> this is the man negotiating for greece to receive further bailout fund to avoid defaulting. the i.m.f. criticized greece for falling behind. >> the ball is in the greek court

. >> i am greater thanreese -- i am joanna rees and i'm running for mayor. i moved here eight years ago to raise my family, and i thought of it as the innovation capital of the world here more than 16 years ago, i founded a venture capital firm with no venture capital experience, but since have been able to support more than 60 bay area companies have created thousands of jobs. i have also spent more than a decade working on public education reform, bringing innovative solutions into our public schools to support teachers and improve student outcomes. i was incredibly fortunate to have a great mentor in my life, a woman named ann richards, the first elected female governor in texas. she instilled in me that i had an obligation to go into public service but she gave me two pieces of advice. she said achieve what i want to achieve professional before i serve so it was really about service and giving back to the community and she said as a mother, it would be easier if the children were older. they are 81022, and that also was a great piece of a device. i would

joanna joined in today. the fund-raiser was also the kick off for yes on proposition a. a measure to repair the schools. >> we're looking to modernize our facilities and this is the last phase of our bond program. >> if proposition a is approved, home owners would pay an additional $21 per $100,000 of their homes values on your property taxes. >> nancy is pushing for more recovery money to help states hit by irene. she toured the damage along the beach of new haven, connecticut. it was submerged when irene hit in late august. the senate approved almost $7 billion in aid for storm victims but the measure is unlikely to pass the republican lead house which wants to see cuts in another part of the budge first. >> halloween may not see many jack o lanterns this year. entire crops were washed away. it was already a difficult year because they had to plant late and risk missing out on the season. after october 31st, pumpkin sales plummet. >> thousands of workers went home without a pay check because of a computer glitch. many workers are concerned about incurring overdraft fee

. >> joanna vidal. >> john t. vigiano ii. >> joseph vincent vigiano. >> frank j. vignola, jr. >> joseph barry vilardo. >> sergio villanueva. >> chantal vincelli. >> and my son. who is still our shining like. >> and my sister, who chose to let her life with laughter, friendship, and love. your family knows who you are. >> melissa vincent. >> francine ann virgilio. >> lawrence virgilio. >> joseph gerard visciano. >> joshua s. vitale. >> maria percoco vola. >> lynette d. vosges. >> garo h. voskerijian. >> alfred vukosa. >> gregory kamal bruno wachtler. >> gabriela waisman. >> courtney wainsworth walcott. >> victor wald. >> and my father. i miss you and i love you. >> and my brother. god, we thank you very much for giving me a brother like that. on behalf of my mother, she lights a candle for you every day. and i think you're still are favored. thank you and god bless you. >> benjamin james walker. >> glen wall. >> mitchel scott wallace. >> peter guyder wallace. >> robert francis wallace. >> roy michael wallace. >> jeanmarie wallendorf. >> matthew blake wallens. >> jo

deputy director for the san francisco's major facility, joanna fraguli says it's difficult to visit manyn francisco officers. chu today introduced legislation that prioritizes permits for ada improvements, requirements financial landlords to bring ground floor entrances and exits in line with latest law. the goal is to improve accessibility and cut lawsuits. >> over 300 business have been sues. in fact, some of these business have been sued multiple times. >> reporter: francovich has filed some of those suits. he says he's forced 1,500 business to comply with ada or pay out to his clients. >> they can't get in or can't use the restrooms or can't use the dining area. so the letter goes out, if they ignore the letter there's a lawsuit that follows. >> we had a gentleman that sued us and then eventually settled. >> reporter: bar owner meets says the cost now lies in bringing the building to compliance. >> the building was built in 1910, over a half a million dollars. >>> we continue to stay on top of developing news. our news chopper 2 is over the building of hayte and filmore. the fire sta

she has endorsed joanna reese. she says there is a lack of female presence in elected city post and vees a self-made woman who has boot strapped her way to the top of a mail-dominated profession. >> a self-made woman. all right. 5:08. we're taking over the world, meteorologist christina loren. >> you are. >> that's right. taking down one man at a time. just kidding. no. we love equality, though. what a great country. we're looking really good. high pressure is bringing in some of that monsoonal moisture. and in addition to the monsoonal moisture creeping up we have a short wave trough that pushed through so we've got a lot of instability over the sierra nevada. if your travels take you through here you want to take it easy. look at all of this lightning firing off. just around the california/nevada border. we're going to see more of that thunderstorm activity into this weekend. but for today and for the most part tomorrow, on shore flow is going to bring in cooler weather and the 70s will return to the south bay as

but they see this, they see joanna us a chance to make some money. but what they've done is they've taken on somebody who cheats them, they have no idea what they've gotten into. you're not going to cheat huntington. what he does to come he breaks the law down, they all have to suffer much lesser get nothing at all. he buys out joanna's fathers farm. her father had five children, none of them had shoes. a final detail that comes in there. where does the mortgage come from? in the mortgage came from the county clerk, then loaned it out to local farmers. so at this point i thought, you know, from bottom to top, no wonder mark twain calls it the gilded age. everyplace you scratch you find these kinds of stories. i later found her playing on the people the 19 shinji. not very many in the road our guys but plenty people in the 19th century. >> well, we come to the point in a program where it's time for the one last question. i'm afraid it's kind of a big question. i will paraphrase several versions of it that is, from members of the audience. but one stan