[applause] >> our next speaker is john dugan. he is a legend. we love that he helped to get these merrill back of on the buildings. >> i know you have a busy schedule, mr. mayor, but before you leave, thank you for your decision to keep this city ticking away that it is. i want to thank many of these people. you have been around here. thank you. i know it was not easy. but what a courageous decision. we are certainly behind you. randy chopped, what can i say about randy? we have gone back and forth over 30 years, but the mural restoration is just another wonderful step -- and it is a happy step. a few months ago we were here talking about police protection, but this is a happy step. something that the tenderloin residents, the retail community, and property owners, can rejoice in. as long as we continue to work together, this tenderloin is going to get better and better. randy, again, thank you for what you did hear. >> carolyn from the mid market cbd is also here. there is a story about market and tenderloin, dark past, shared future. now we ar

. >> reporter: 9-year-old ryan dugan was more frightened than he's ever been. >> it was up to my neckeporter: he followed three kids out on the ice they now know was not thick enough to hold them. in a frigid pond that drops off to a depth of four to five deet, double that or more further out. but for the neighbors passing by at the right time, acting on gut instinct, this would have been a very different story to tell. they were panicked? >> absolutely. they were saying, help us, please help us. >> i used the ladder and gave it to one of the parents and helped get towels for the kids who were just getting out. >> reporter: it was the fourth boy who was in the deepest water and biggest trouble. all agree he needed a hero in a bad way. >> a very generous man tied the rope around his waist and jumped in to save my friend, jake. >> reporter: enter robert george. >> the one that was way out there, he kept saying, i can't feel my legs and all that. as a parent, i feel for -- i couldn't just stand here. i didn't hear any police or energy equipment getting here. i know i'm a good swimmer. i

. >> reporter: president of the national federation of federal employees bill dugan says the nearly 2 million federal workers of this country have helped contribute to lowering the deficit enough already. >> with the two-year pay freeze that they're under, that translates into $60 billion of savings over the next ten years. the fact that they tied freezing congress's pay to freezing federal employees' pay for a third year is inexcusable and shameful. >> reporter: the pay freeze legislation now has to make it through the democratic controlled senate. 85% of the federal work force lives and works outside the d.c. metropolitan area. the national federation of federal employees says a third year of pay freezes would not only have an adverse effect here but in the rural areas and smaller communities throughout the country. on capitol hill, erika gonzalez, news 4. >>> there is new information tonight about a young girl sexually assaulted on campus. it happened yesterday at the elementary school in southeast. tonight school administrators are trying to figure out how a man talked his way int

well, that job often fell to bill dugan. joe and bill were lifelong friends, graduated in the same class of lasalle academy, went into politics together and made a memorable political team in rhode island history. last thursday, joe garrahy and his dear companion and political associate bill dugan were together one last time. i spoke to bill's -- bill's sons are friends of mine, david and richard. and at bill's funeral i spoke to richard and i remarked on how extraordinary it was that this really exceptional rhode island friendship and political alliance should end with these two men dying in the same week within virtually hours of each other. and richard looked back and me and he said, "sheldon, you don't know the half of it. it was during my father's wake at boil's funeral home that the governor was brought home from rhode island -- from florida where he had been vacationing by the state police to rhode island. and that night the two old companions rested one last time side by side on smith hill at boyle's funeral home." o

jon dugan as well. you can see that great historic pedestrian lighting, which we only have on taylor street and a small part of golden gate. i did not know this, but when he was a cao, ed lee