facilitating a plates for tour buses to be -- place for tour buses to be parked overnight. currently there isn't any place in the city where tour buses can park securely overnight. and also, considering the establishment of a permit program to permit tour buses to operate in san francisco, and that's something that the legislation that supervisor chu is bringing forward today would help us to accomplish. so that's pretty much summarizes what's in the plan. we've released it to all interested parties and we're happy to take comments on that draft proposal. >> could you tell the public what the process isst >> the first step was to make some changes to transportation code section one, which is on the agenda this afternoon. the future steps would need to be approved by the sfmta board of directors following public hearings and outreach with all interested parties. >> i have a feeling there are a lot of folks in this room that would love to give you feedback as well as see this policy become enacted as soon as possible. do you have copies of it that you can circulate to folks w

tour buses. because some of the main concerns, at least from my resident, have been the unenclosed tour buses that are open to the air that you can hear as they drive by, not so much the enclosed ones. and you made the reference to the mune yi buses, which i don't think -- muni buses, which i don't think are open to the air at all. >> supervisor, of course the concerns are much more addressed with the open. and i would say on the lift of 18 companies here, -- list of 18 companies here, a little less than half have open-sided buses and both operate within the city. i'd be happy to get specific numbers and get back to you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> at this time we'll hear from the alamo square neighborhood association board members, aaron morris and bess hernandez. >> i actually want to make a comment following up on the presentation that was just made by the industry. >> sure. >> first of all, i certainly -- and i think we all appreciate the importance of tourism in our local economy. i think

you're touring all over the town. and -- i hope that land use don't be discouraged the tour bus man, he ain't so hard to understand. and land use, i know it will get better and i know you will lend a healpinlping hand there is good in city hall and everyone a new city hall has begun. you can reach the cliff-out sun if you try now it will make it better for the city land use and the tour bus man because there's good in every one and a new tour day has begun you can reach the beach sun now oh now they will for the city and the man tour bus, i know you understand. [applause] [laughter] >> that's a hard act to follow. i am alvin huey. i am from the san francisco senior advisory committee at fisherman's wharf. i have heard the arguments and want to bring up one thing. oftentimes, it has been reported to me that the people at the motorized cable cars, they make fun of some of the seniors walking around on fisherman's wharf. and i want to make sure that there is an of screening and education for the tool or operators so that

we have various operators with lux bus and royal coach tours from san jose. you have disruptions of traffic on guerrerro at 24th. the zone for three-ton limits. these buses stop on guerrero and disrupt traffic. this is an example of muni that occurs with the t.e.p. and muni. this was at 24th. the commuter bus goes in. at 24th street and castro. the commuter bus was in the bus zone. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you for coming out andy vsospeaking. let me ask if president chu or supervisor olague -- >> i appreciate you for saying this items. there are two -- we have discussion of this and i am supportivfe of dialog. i don't support a summit that would delay moving forward. we move this to a couple of weeks. and when i first sat down with a tour bus operators, they had many concerns from neighbors. this is been a year, a year and a half. we can pull something -- someone together, we need to move forward. i do have a few questions. there are laws on the books that we will need additional enforcement. mr. robbins, could you talk about the pla

we'll have the first bike tour that will feature the neighborhoods on a great tour. we're excited about that. we have a lot of great information. we're open from 12 to 7 p.m. >> thank you for the time. a lot of people will have questions. >>> and the mayor will be in upton to kick off power in dirt. and this initiative in the area is a planning committee that will transform 32 lots into gardening beds to create a site where residents can learn about he growing and cooking healthy food t will be at 11 on lawrence street. >>> the o's going for a fifth win. and this is after a 3-2 win over the white sox. >>> and the left fielder homered for a fourth game and had a highlight reel catch. and chen earned his first win in just the second career start first pitch tonight is set for 8:10. a former o in the record books. jamie moyer has become the oldest major league pitcher to record a win 49 years old. the rockies beat the padres 5- 3. >> and living the dream. and i still believe say there the passion for the game it is a special night. >> he was watching with the cubs along

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now the jackson 5, they are going on tour. >> and a tour that's long overdue. where you can hear them locally. >>> calling all single ladies. how you can meet mr. right. >>> we have lots of clouds around this morning. and will we get any rain out of the clouds. details coming up. >>> the pace is picking up out on the roads. where volume is building. 3q finally carpet cleaning got easier. try resolve easy clean to deep clean your carpets. just 3 easy steps for beautifully clean carpets. it removes 3 times more dirt than vacuuming alone. don't just vacuum clean. resolve clean. thanksi'll take the usual. got it. if you're open to choosing your own batter, mix-ins and toppings, come in today and build a stack you'll be proud of. only at denny's. >>> another couple is no longer competing. if you missed it this is who was sent home. >> on this fifth week we have to say goodbye to gavin and karina. >> he and his partner they were voted off so they had been the bottom few for a few weeks. the remaining dancers are practicing for next week that will feature motown songs

you left the couch for a ten city tour? ten city tour. >> what made you decide to do that?> growing up, always wanting to entertain the family, it's been a dream of mine to do comedy. as i was able to do my thing, i was able to present myself with almost a venture, faith walk. i didn't have a sponsor. i said i want to put on this tour. i have a vision of putting a gospel, arsenio hall type of show together. so the tour is pushing that toward my way. i went to fairfield, mow dest m, fresno, different cities, san jose, newark -- is there a great experience? >> i learned a lot about the journey. as far as entertainer street, entertainment and industry, i do clean comedy. being in the cities is funny how you see things in ten different churches. >> is the humor different in different places? >> at the end of the day when you are a ghetto christian, it's universal. >> what is a ghetto christian? >> being a oakland, from thehood, and my dad being a preacher. i couldn't grow up being a nasty comedian, nothing against those comedians doing their thing, but i do the clean stuff. whe

that is a camel." >> thank you, sir, for this tour. this has been absolutely wonderful and in conversation with jim along the trail, i found out that before he became a volunteer docent here at red rock canyon state park, you were in aerospace for 40 years and helped build the space station. >> that's correct. yes, i did. >> well, you're still in space out here. look at this. >> that's why i like it so much. >> well, congratulations. you're doing a great job. when you come out here to visit the park, maybe you'll get jim as one of your tour guides. another one of his talents is playing the harmonica. so as a segue from this segment to the next segment of this adventure. we're just gonna leave you out here in space, playing the harmonica, okay? >> all right. >> go for it. [music] the adventure continues. red rock revealed in layers. we have now come inside to the visitor center to cool off. we'd met up with another volunteer docent. jim was a volunteer, the fellow who took us on the hike. lou, you're a volunteer as well, and you're here

a couple of examples of the -- there's a passionate street artist in the mission will had offered tours to friends and family and people in the community. he had become an expert. he discovered our platform and is not able -- not only able to monetize and make money to do what he loves that he had already been doing the sharing the expertise and knowledge will be on his own network of family and friends. we have tourists coming from japan and france, and instead of just seeing pier 39, they are also venturing into the mission, spending money at the local readers shop and gaining knowledge about something they have now become passionate about. one other example is a homeless man who lives in the tenderloin at a shelter. him volunteering in the tenderloin. realized that there was a huge opportunity for people to educate themselves about homelessness in san francisco because it is something that the city, for better or worse, is known for. instead of ignoring that segment of town -- because you do not typically think of it as a tourist destination -- we wanted to see what were the strength

pga tour inc., third amendment to the master toward agreement -- tour agreement. >> good morning, commissioners. property and management. it is easier to do a chart because there was a lot of information. powerball and would not give you a good overview. as i said in the committee meetings, this is the third amendment we are requesting for the masters tournament agreement. for those of you who remember, this was written before any tournaments started coming here, and as any business operation as you are moving forward, you understand the necessity for certain changes. the current agreement as amended still calls for six events to be held before 2020. four have been held. the next thing on our schedules will be the charles schwab cup, to be held in 2013. there has been some press written about this item today. i want to say, this is not a sudden thing on our part. general manager ginsberg and i have worked on this, negotiated this agreement over the last several months. the pga tour did not release bringing us -- this on us at the last minute. they certainly told us ahead of time there might be

you have a week to go on this particular tour?yeah. >> tell me, you've been doing this for a long time now. actually, you started playing together when you were little kids, right? >> yeah. >> just creating music, just for the folks? >> yeah, yeah. you know, i grew up listening to my brother, who was already a full-time musician when i was a little kid, he was playing in bands from the time we were little. i would kind of bang along on a pot with him or something like that, and eventually he let me join the band. >> now, when you started out, i know a lot of people, it's like, the bacon brothers, kevin bacon, kevin bacon. was it tough to get through that period where people are saying, it's just an actor dabbling in music? >> yeah. i think it's still kind of there. >> really? >> even though we've been doing it for a long time, i think it gets easier. people have a -- are doubtful about people that do two things. you know what i mean? it's kind of like -- >> [inaudible]. >> we try not to focus on it too much. >> michael, tell us ab

last year, tour mobile went out of business and that was the only company with permission to offer tours with stops on the mall. open top tickets are $32 for adults and allow to you hop on and off throughout the day. last month, amc tours began an express route for $5 per boarding. >>> we've heard the stories about wasteful spending by the general services administration. $820,000 on a lavish las vegas conference. video has surfaced showing government workers joking about it. in, it a gsa work sings about all the spending he would do if he were the commissioner and how he would never be subject to an investigation. the out ram yuhas charges already cost several government workers their jobs and two house committees are now investigating. >> when the white house was performed of the inspector general's findings, we quickly acted to find out who was responsible for search gross misuse of taxpayer dollars. >> the gsa released a statement saying the agency continues to be pauled by the indefensible behavior and they are taking steps to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. >>> you'

china's trying its won in getting a slice of the arctic energy as its premier wen jiabao embarks on a tour of europe. next moscow our team continues its relentless hunt for fun to be had in the russian capital. hello konichiwa on the streets probably taking a look at japanese culture in the russian capital although it's several hundred thousand kilometers away many muscovites are fascinated by such subjects as our asian cuisine animation so joining us as we take a look at various shops classes sports and festivals starting off here. although thousands of kilometers from moscow some people forget that russia japan the far eastern areas the country the creels and the island. the two countries have strong commercial relations the russians have been fascinated by japanese traditions and culture for centuries. opened in one nine hundred ninety eight to japan foundation here is a welcome addition for everyone in moscow from japanese ex-pats to the thousands of russian students japanese. as you can see the live restocks thousands of books videos d.v.d.'s and c.d.'s. and all are available to rent

the g-men can't wait to break camp. >> first major of the year in golf is on the women's tour. the leader, yani sting tseng has won five tournaments. then cross, the shot of the day on 13. per approach. a couple of bounces. nothing but net. for eagle. but everyone still chasing tseng. she'll make the put bit struggled on the back nine with three bogeys, shooting a 71. show deen, the birdie putt. they're tied at 9-under going into the final round on sunday. >>> round three of the houston open, winner getting an insatellite masters. hunter mahan, a 7-under 65. but owls of us of united -- liee takes the lead. >> let's serve them up. the women's final with maria sharapova, coming up with a six-match win streak over aga. sharapova, her backand out. one of 45 unforced errors. match point in the second. long rally but share pope a gets it out again. radwanska wins in straight sets. didn't lose a set. >>> sharks, must-win against dallas. hope to see you at 11:00. sharks are fading fast. >> ama: not looking good. can't get enough of harry pot center how -- harry potter? how to get a gli

we have a couple of really unique aspects and we'll have a walking tour.al areas featuring some unique things that most people that are new to baltimore or if you lived here have no idea it exists in the neighborhoods. if we like to ride our bike, we have a first ever live baltimore neighborhood bike tour. you can see a lot, every sing the in the neighborhoods on the tour f you want to keep it easy. come in and we're at 2906 chesswick road. we'll have people talk to. we'll have a five neighborhoods and five minutes and come and get the overview we'll have that. we are putting a lot of information into it today t is free. if you want to see what it was like. we have great photos. we hope to check out what is going on here. >> and last week forbes released a poll ranking baltimore fourth among the best places. we have to be honest here. education is a struggle. taxes are a struggle. crime is a struggle. how do you counter act those negatives with positives? >> that's a great question. talking to people that live here. our staff has great resources about unde

last month, amc tours started a tour for $5 per boarding. >>> and getting tickets for a white house tourre creating a new tour use the 360 math technology and can you see inside the rooms and zoom in to check out artifacts and portraits and this is mrs. obama hosting the welcome video. >> such a great opportunity. >> yeah. i might do that. >> and that is me. >>> thank you so much for joining us at 5. >> the news edge at 6 starts now. >>> they called her the blonde band it. finally apprehended last year after a 13-day crime spree in virginia and maryland and included robbing several banks. stephanie assault with a deadly weapon pleaded guilty tonight in u.s. district court and karen gray houston has the latest. >> reporter: a slu of charges that stephanie swab could have been prosecuted for. many were dismissed and in exchange, she agreed to cooperate with the government on several cases, and she pleaded guilty to three charges. one for robbing a bank in monasses to driving a vehicle that she had carjacked across state lines from virginia to baltimore, and to conspiracy to distribute hero

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you take them on the tour? >> yeah. >> reporter: they have their own bunk?ey sleep with me. >> reporter: your husband doesn't like sleeping on the tour bus. >> it's like, good night. and we turn over. >> reporter: he is a pro hockey player. she has won more awards than her wildest dreams and just 7 short years ago, she was a no-name contestant on "american idol." ♪ 'cause i can't make you love me ♪ >> going to l.a. for "american idol" was so scary. i was crying in the car on the way to the airport. i was flying for the first time, and flying by myself. >> you are win this show and you are sell more records than anyone. >> reporter: simon cowell. >> he likes to remind people of that. >> reporter: underwood, now 29, is struggling with the same question young women ask, when to start a family. >> i'm fine and happy and really thinking about the idea of having kids. and then another day, i'm like, gosh, no, what? ♪ >> reporter: the shy, small-town girl has come out of her shell, belting out a warning for a man to think before he cheats. ♪ before he cheats do you

so locals are offering visitors disaster-area tours.e're taking you on one for this week's "road ahead." here's nhk world's yukari condo. >> reporter: junko from miyago city leads a tour. the city's tourism office hired her in february as a disaster area guide. the tsunami -- it also left her jobless. looking back on the ordeal, how to bear. then a friend in tokyo asked her if things up north were back to normal. she said she hadn't heard much news about the area. that's what made her apply for the guide position. >> translator: i was worried that everyone just assumed things were back to normal here. things are slowly getting better, but we are nowhere close to being back on our feet. >> reporter: in miyago city, the tsunami swept over one of japan's largest sea walls. it killed more than 420 people, and the extent of damage is beyond imagination. before leading her first tour, sazaki did some research. she knew many visitors intend to learn about disaster prevention through the experiences of people who went through the calamity. on t

mahan, a par 4 will win his second pga tour title of the year. >> let's take a look at where his eyes are aiming, roger. you got this under control? >> he's got 198 left to the hole, johnny. he's got to be looking right of the hole. he's got 7 iron out, downwind, just try to hit something solid and into the center of the green. >> there it is right there. that's a pressure shot, but not that tough to get it right of the hole 20 feet. >> i think he likes it. >> oh, that's nice. >> that's trusting your swing, john. >> i bet he hit that within a foot of where he was aiming. that was a pure shot. >> well, he liked this one. >> absolutely awesome. >> they will be on their way to augusta, hopefully with a victory. now oosthuizen. is there a little miracle here for oosthuizen. >> he'd have to hole it and hope hunter doesn't make it. and not his best, but we've seen a lot worse than that. it's been a great run of tournaments for us, hey, dan? we've had hunter winning six weeks ago. >> a spectacular swing, johnny. in all of the years we've been doing this, i cannot think of a better list of qu

and will the hologram of tupac go out on tour? i mean tupac lives. secret service agents are saying no. greg? >> thank you, andy. >> you bet, greg. >> all right. >> i got nothing. >> neither do i. bye. >>> let's welcome our guests. she is the unrepent tent monster and she is responsible for all that is evil in this world. i am here with dana marine know and sh -- perino and one of my co-hosts on "the five." and steven cruiser, host of "cruiser control." and 234* samoa he is considered a tooth pick. he is my sidekick, bill schulz. and he can pull more legs than a leg pulling machine. it is the great comedian jim norton. he is easy to bash because his sales are trash. good to see you, pinch. >> today dining our restaurant critic reviews allison 18 which is the answer to the only two questions charlie sheen ever asks. that, -- na, na, na, pinch! >>> will the election depend on man's best friend? and is it worse to eat than not offer a seat? romney has been roughed up for strapping shamus, his dog torkts roof years ago. but now obama is in the cross hair

toure shaking his head.op keeps on rolling in an article just recently in rolling stone last year. the president said, quote, jay-z used to be sort of what predominated my ipod. now i have a little nas and a lil wab. help us understand what's going on. >> i was shaking my head about the infamous. i thought that was not infamous. i thought that was a positive moment that located him as a man of the people. >> i get. that infamous is seen as negative where famous is positive. what is the hip hop strategy? >> it used to be the boogie man that politicians could wave their finger at. this thing you could attack. now it is this thing where, it makes me look cool. alpha, man of the people, the way rock 'n' roll was for the previous generation. when the president says, hey, i'm a jay-z guy, a lil wayne guy, a nas guy. make him seem cool. he also listens to yo-yo ma. i love how the president is letting us know what he thinks about kanye. he likes the music. he keeps calling him the other word we cannot say on televis

you will be on the tour later on, because you are in the finalists group.e of my favorites. i thought you sang the heck out of it. >> thank you. >> did you know that song? it's older than you. >> i knew it. i love old music. it's what i really want to do as an artist. i want to bring back that r&b, thasound. back in the day, everybody was a falsetto singer. now it's so unappreciated. those few singers, i want to join them in the force and bring back music. >> right. >> even if it's not huge. i want it to be known. >> right. as a debarge fan, i appreciated it. it was great. we were up and dancing to it wednesday night. last night you're there and singing for your life. and then the decision comes down. jennifer lopez basically says, i have that one vote. what's it feel like when you're standing there and hearing that? basically she said, i voted for you, these two guys didn't. >> they had my back. all the judges had my back. it was nice j.lo was pushing for me and i felt the love and appreciation for that. in the end, i was a wildcard. >> right. >> you only

it is like going on tour with alan zweibel. very entertaining. like watching him try to find the gate at the airport. >> you make it seem like i am the rain man. >> he would be able to find the gates at the airport. [laughter] you see the parents with the thing that connects their wrists to the children. that is what i need with him. >> alan on book tour, you have to go to many different cities and make connections. you pack a small carry-on suitcase. when we met for the book tour in new york, alan had a suitcase that had wheels. it would not go in the overhead. the question was, with the plane take off? he had a garment bag. i said, what did you bring? he said that he brought, -- >> amongst other things, i brought two bathing suits. >> he brought two bathing suits. a book tour. you get a schedule. you go on all these interviews. you'll do this, whatever. what is never said it is 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., swimming. [laughter] >> i brought a black one and a blue one, depending on what color socks i was going to be wearing to the swimming pool that d

no. 1, bus tours are back on the national mall.n top tours bright red double deckers are taking new routes to include the capitol, smithsonian museum and the memorials. tickets are $32 for adults and allow you to hop on and of off throughout the day and that is tonight's fox 5 top five. brian? >> getting a little chillier than we've been accustomed to. >> it will be tomorrow night, too. i think tomorrow night might be colder than tonight. i know you did a lot of gardening already. >> you know i have been weeding. i don't garden. i clean everything out. >> your plants will get a little help. i don't think everybody will get cold. the district points east and south you're not looking at frost tonight. we will likely see that north and west tonight as well as tomorrow, tomorrow night potentially colder for a more widespread area. we'll start with temperatures, a 37 on the map now at frederick, holding onto a 52 in the district, 54 at quantico, annapolis 50, but it's up in these areas where we think temperatures could drop tonight. it'

and we'll tour the battlefield with chief park ranger stacey allen saturday at

here with marv, and we were also on a whistle stop tour through georgia. this was several weeks before the election. and after the third debate, after the crowds all come around and everybody shakes hands and takes pictures, mrs. bush beelined for ross perot because he made accusations the campaign had maligned his family and daughters, and mrs. bush wanted to set the record straight at that that just was not true. here she is with her newly adopted son, governor clinton -- soon-to-be adopted son, still governor at the time. it's customary after the election that the first lady gives a tour to the newly elected first lady in the white house, and here she is with mrs. clinton in the queen's bedroom. going over some notes before a speech in a hotel room somewhere. in america somewhere we get one more hotel. sorting through children's books that were -- she was giving to her grandchildren at the staff hotel in kennebunkport. and on a bus tour through illinois and wisconsin. obviously, a late night trip home. we had been given 3d glasses and just being silly o

next on our tour is the climate-controlled room where they store some very unique wood.rame of a steinway is made from rock maple lumber, which gives it strength. but the skin of a piano, known as a veneer, can come from many different sources, some of which are quite unusual. >> we have a collection of pianos we call the crown jewel collection, which are exotic veneers, and when we build one of these pianos, all of the veneers, all the pieces of wood on that piano, will come from the same tree, and the reason we know that is, if you look up here, that's literally a tree. it's half of it, but that would be a tree, and it's called a "flitch." and we mark that flitch, and we number it, and that flitch will follow this piano as it goes through the factory so we're sure that we have an even color pattern and that the grain patterns all work and all look the same. the veneers that we use come from all over the world. we have walnut from the united states, we have a wood, believe it or not, called kah-wu zinga bu-binga, which comes from africa. we have macassar ebony, which co

here with marvin also we were on a whistle stop tour through georgia. this is several weeks before the election. and after the third debate, everybody comes around and takes pictures, mrs. bush beelined for ross perot because he had made some accusations that the campaign had maligned his family and his doctors and mrs. bush wanted to set the record straight that that was just not true. here she is with her newly adopted son. governor clinton. soon to be adopted son. still governor at the time. it's customary after the election that the first lady gives a tour to the newly elected first lady in the white house. here she is with mrs. clinton in the queen's bedroom. going over some notes before speech. in america somewhere we get one more hotel room. sorting through children's books that she was giving to her grandchildren in ken any bunk port. and on a bus tour through illinois and wisconsin. obviously a late night trip home. somewhere we were given 3d glasses and being silly on the plane. i like the guy on the right who missed his pair but is willing to