. ♪ there's a little hotel [speaker not understood] at the city junction city hall junction there is little hotel at the shady rest at the city hall supervisor function city hall junction and lots of curves, lots of words at the city junction city hall function and there comes city [speaker not understood] it's the moving kind of budget slow at the junction city hall junction and lots of rules keeping cool lots of land will take a public stand at the city junction and here comes mayor lee he's gonna make us free and here's supervisor you and president chiu we're gonna visit you at the city hall junction all aboard city hall - toot-toot - junction (applause) >>> ladies and gentlemen of the audience and board of supervisors, good afternoon. for the record, my name is emil lawrence. i've been a resident of the city and county of san francisco for 44-1/2 years. the reason for my talk today is very briefly this. the they wrote in the chronicle yesterday or the day before that the 49ers' biggest nightmare was the seattle sea hawks, but they're wrong. the biggest nightmare was the board of s

rafael to the city is 15 minutes and here is walnut creek, southbound 680, loading up on the curb as you make it away from highway 4 to the 24 junction. eric and kristen? >> if oakland, a new city initiative to bust literbugs is showing success. officials say they seeing morphotos and videos of illegal bumping including license mail numbers used to track down and site offenders. oakland saw 17,000 illegal dumpings mostly old mattresses, broken furniture, and discarded construction material. that is not all. >> we have had people find cow heads dumped in my district to biomedical waste which indicates irresponsible dumping by companies. >> yikes. the city is considering a new ordinance that changes dumping from an infraction to a misdemeanor and increase fines. >> the san francisco board of supervisors has pass add tough new ordinance to prevent police officers and sheriff deputies from holding for deportation all but a handful of people arrested living in the country without permission. the "san francisco chronicle" reports the law is designed to encourage people without valid documents to call police to report crimes and seek help without fear of being detained and deported. t

city every day. with the book tour, in addition to the big cities, we go to a very obscure places as well where military bases are. so i have been to junction city, kansas, i have been to anniston, alabama, which is very near fort mcfarland. >> is that creative publicity? >> i think that those trips don't generate publicity so much as book sales. the military bases are there and i think that our core audience for this book has actually been military people in sacramento, california, you are next. >> caller: hello, my name is john gallagher. thank you. >> we are having a hard time hearing you. could you start over, please? >> caller: yes, my name is john gallagher and i was in mogadishu for three months. just have a question for mark bowden. is there a reason that has the military given a reason why we were really over there? when i was over there, there were starving people and things like that. and i couldn't really understand why the government said we were over there. >> okay, the question was why were we in mogadishu. we were there because we intervene with 20,000 marines in the summer of 1992. basically ended the famine very quickly. so we