>> i concur with the most beautiful city. welcome to what will be the wettest four day stretch than we had last april. kpix5 high-def in addition doppler. some light showers out there. but they are a couple of hours early. they are pushing inland meaning right now, vallejo, napa, hercules, emeryville. san rafael picking up showers. so what to expect? it will be a mild night. widespread showers for wednesday morning. rain totals with this round are light, but guess what? there are three rounds of rainfall between now and the weekend. find out when they will hit coming up in a few minutes. >> sounds good. we will see you then. >>> a crash, a bad one, closed all southbound lanes on i680 in martinez over an hour tonight just as the evening commute was getting started. chp says that is about 5:00. a honda pilot sideswiped a car and collided with another vehicle before landing on its roof. the 66-year-old woman driver of the pilot was killed. five other people were injured. the headlights showed just how far back traffic was stacke

this was the time of the city beautiful movement. the bridge, rather than being a simple utilitarian structure is this grand bridge with these neoclassical arches. it looks like roman aqueducts. it is very much part of the city beautiful movement. the city beautiful movement was popularized during the world fair of 1893 in chicago. the other main aesthetic of the world's fair was a romanticization of the american frontier. this was the closing of the frontier. the 1890 census declare the front are closed. there was a romantic nation -- romanticization going on. they also wanted to have nostalgia about the bygone american past. they put four gigantic buffalo along the top of the bridge and decided to carve into each side of the bridge 28 indian busts. they used what they thought was a generic plains indian head. if you run or drive underneath the bridge today, you will see these heads jutting out with prominent features and a war bonnet or headdress. it is all the same one. just replicated 28 times on each side of the bridge. it is rea

it's about a beautiful christmas tree for the city. >> reporter: as crews continued dismantling the treeen as the new one arrived, the councilmen kept debating on the sidewalk. >> i'm only trying to be helpful. >> reporter: and that's when a little christmas miracle happened. >> the mayor is calling. >> reporter: a pardon from the mayor, a stay of reexecution, if you will. >> we will keep this thing here. >> reporter: in the end, it was all the national publicity that allowed the city leaders to see the true meaning of christmas-- marketing. >> we'll have people here from jersey, new york taking pictures and spending their money in our beautiful city. >> reporter: oh, christmas tree. steve hartman, "on the road," in reading, pennsylvania. >> quijano: that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for scott pelley, i'm elaine quijano. thank you for joining us. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> breaking news right now ray rice's indefinite suspension from the nfl is overturn and he is now eligible to play football again. that deci

today this city becomes just a little bit more beautiful. thanks to the incredible hard work that has made this new renovation a reality. the parks alliance is the independent partner to the entire city for everything having to do with parks, recreation, and open space. we have more than 100 different community groups called park partners all across the city. each of them working in their own way to make our park system a little better, a little more beautiful, a little more usable. today this is the day for one of those groups, the friends of lafayette park. this is a shining example of how a few neighbors can come together, bring together their friends, and make an incredibly beautiful thing happen in a public open space. this park was renovated with bond dollars, but friends of lafayette park brought in hours and hours of hard work over four years to do visioning and imagining what this park could really look like. they raised over half a million dollars of private fund to augment the bond dollars so that this kind of a playground could be

the place and succeed same way as i did 40 years ago when i came to this beautiful country and beautiful city and, of course, there's no secret to noun none of us that particular block of ocean avenue is not the best with a lot of vacancies, of course, and i think we need to support this man and please do not kill this project i want to please let you know that this young fellow is ambitious definitely and he showed me he's going to be able to go throughout and wish him the best thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i need to get a card. >> that's if that. >> good afternoon. i'm ann chin a resident of west side park i only will a few blocks in the ocean project like to read something from the letter of ocean avenue it says for o aa position to support of the conditional use application should not be construed of the approval of the organization the finding do not conform with the balboa park area station plan for the whole thank you. >> thank you the next speaker what come down please line up on our right side of the room i'll call more names (calling names). >> good afternoon.

like where i live where we have sidewalks. >> stephen: you know, urban people. >> i live in a beautiful city stephen: i don't see race, but i do see urban. are you urban? >> i live in an urban community. i don't live in an urban community, although i love rural communities. i live in an urban community. >> stephen: you were involved in the black panthers in college. was that another free love groove. >> i wasn't a member of the panth glergz they wouldn't let you in. >> i didn't even apply. i worked on community programs. >> stephen: you never officially joined the black panthers. >> never. >> does that mean you can only raise your fist this pie high? >> that's a question i can't even answer because it's so stupid. >> stephen: you sponsored a bill to support programs for comprehensive sex education. how exrens riff we talkin talkit here because there is some crazy stuff on the internet i wouldn't want kids to find out about. >> public schools should be able to teach kids how to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease. >> stephen: but when we were kids-- ( applause ) it w

she says it's the most beautiful city in the world and many would agree. quito's historic city centre is a world heritage. site. ♪ >> my name is emperatriz garcÍa and i'm a vendor at the san francisco market in quito. i'm 66 years old, i'm from ecuador, and i live in the ibarra district, in the south of quito. ♪ i think i live in the most beautiful country. it's small, but we're in the middle of the world, and there's everything here. in one day here we have summer, rain, and cold. all the seasons in just one day. ♪ >> what do you do for a living? >> i work here from 7 am until 5 pm. i sell medicinal herbs and other natural remedies. >> what makes you happy? ♪ >> it makes me happy to come to work. when i stay home, i miss my work a lot, because i've had this routine my whole life. i spend more time here than at home. >> what does globalization mean to you? >> i think it has to do with pollution. our environment is polluted with so many things, like too much plastic and exhaust fumes. maybe that is globalization. money's also part of it. we now have the doll

the third factor is very important, and that is the natural beauty of the city. people typically come here and say, oh my god, what a beautiful toys this is. therefore, they try to keep it that way. that was the third quality that is instrumental in shaping the city we enjoy today. the location was very important because it was located in exactly halfway between lake michigan and the mississippi river. when you try to locate a capital out of unorganized land, being in the center was very important. that was a very key fact in locating the city. the reason why the legislators picked this location. anison is a very rare city isthmus. relatively narrow surrounded by lakes. very few cities in the world have this distinction. the man who laid out madison have seen washington, d.c. many times. one of his goals was to try to copy the street design that he saw in washington, d.c. he did. all of the streets came together and focus on a public building, such as the capital. that was the key idea. the fact that madison was laid mus surrounded by two lakes have profound impli

matt haney for working with us and helping us to know what to do in terms of citizens of this beautiful city to protect our children. god bless all of you. thank you [ applause ] . >> i want to pay my respects to all of the board members here, my name is damian posey and i'm representing the united players and mentors. just asking that you continue to support the gun buyback that we have got going on december 13th with the united players. i'm in the streets every day, trying to keep the peace out there, and any support with this would be helpful. i'm not only a member of the cbo, but once upon a time a perpetrator and did ten years in prison for possession of a firearm and i know everybody is trying to get the guns off the streets and out of appropriate homes because my fetish for guns started when i was young, when i was 11 years old and my grandfather had a gun in the house. i was 11 and he was older at the time and it was in his drawer, easy for me to get to and that started my affection and affiliation for guns. i took guns to the school and thank god nothing every happened, but stuff li

resident of the neighborhood and chairs most of the things that makes san francisco a unique and beautiful city and building that 70 is historically able to play a leadership roll for the sustainable community i become involved with a high profile 80 position to stop jack spade i work with the merchant and community activists and know how important 70 formula retail is to san francisco many folks who live in san francisco know that few things can erode and the loss of our small businesses to the influx of chain stores i think the 11 store threshold is good and i believe it should remain part of the controls i also want to point out in the case of jake spade important popular the count was for ownership i kwoo don't know anyone was fooled by jack spade was a formula retail it was only a kate spied with more than one hundred stores internationally sthfs no a.m. guilty whether or not jack spade was needing to face a formula retail process and it created a fight therefore i want to finish by saying of the working group on this issue to address the corporate ownership is important and love to help w

17, as being the 25th anniversary of the (inaudible) earthquake, and remind everybody that our beautiful city hall here, was one of those buildings that was incredibly heavily damaged during that earthquake. and that there have been numerous city initiative to do seismic retrofits throughout and this building was one example of that. we invested hundreds of millions of dollars in this building to make it safe. but what we got out of that, was also, an accessible city hall, and so, there is a connection there, that as we invest in our future, for safety, and disaster preparedness that we are also investing in the accessibility of our critical infrastructure. every year, on this date, it is always a good reminder to update your plans, and make sure that your friends have your phone numbers and make sure that you have your prescriptions written down. and make sure that you have the few extra of those pills. and this is your time to revisit your kits and your plans and your friends and your relationships. and our new mod web page has a disaster preparedness button down on the first home page. and

the third factor is very important, and that is the natural beauty of the city. people typically come here and they say, my god. what a beautiful place this is. to keepefore, they try it that way. that is the third quality that was instrumental in shaping the city we wenjoy. the location was important because it was located in exactly halfway between lake michigan and the mississippi river. when you try to locate the capital out of unorganized land, center was very important. that was a key factor locating the city, and the reason why the legislator picked this location. madison is a very rare city on an isthmus. it is a relatively narrow -- wa ist surrounded by lakes. very few cities have this distinction. the man who laid out madison had d.c., manygton, times. one of his goals was to try to copy the street design that he saw in washington, d.c., here. so he did. by that, all of the streets came together and focus on a public building, such as the capitol. that was the key idea. the fact that madison was laid out on it is miss -- isthmus surrounded by two lakes h

next to the most beautiful city hall in the country. right in the center of the city. >> it is fun to see like everyone skating and having fun, no one arguing. >> and enjoying the rink today for her good grades in school. >> her a--honor role. >> 12:00 until 3:00 the rink was free for people to try out. if that wasn't enough to get some parents on the ice. >> that's all i am going to do is watch. i am not going to get on any skates. ♪ >> back out here life, you see the people who decided to get on the skates. some people know how to skate. you can see they are out here doing their thing. other people are doing it for the first time and are learning. if you would like to try skating here, $3 for kids under 10, $4 for adults. $8 for skate rentals. the prices on the website at 6abc.com. and everybody is having a great time out here tonight. eva pilgrim, channel 6 "action news." >> great idea. >>> whether your headed to the ice skating rink or anywhere else this weekend keep t tabs o the weather outside at 6abc.com. and you can watch the lat

more than 20 million americans are unrolling yoga mats and as you can see -- a beautiful city.t is so apparent. everywhere. there is something about this ancient eastern tradition. that speaks to us. in 2014.

go solar is not just the way for our beautiful city to make our renewable energy goals and create a cleaner san francisco. there is also a significant economic benefit by adding value to homes and creating actual jobs. our young people can aspire to be installers, technicians, salespeople, battery [speaker not understood] engineers and so much more. these careers are created by the solar industry and our kids can aspire to create a brighter more sustainable san francisco. i stand in solidarity with our labor unions, local solar businesses he and community advocates ~ that are all in support of funding the go solar program permanently in establishing a solar vision for 2020. thank you. >>> good afternoon. i'm also going to speak on item 35. my name is joe hernandez and i'm the organizer for labor 261. on behalf of our laborers, we believe solar can create good clean energy jobs for solar here in san francisco. thais' why we support the resolution in making go solar a permanent program for funding. it will create more work opportunities in solar installation. we'd like to thank president chiu

. >> we are such a beautiful city, historic city.we're a city of neighborhoods with diverse cultures but we're warm and friendly and welcoming. >> reporter: president of caldwell banker real estate in center city, julie welker anticipates people who own high-rise units or homes in the art museum area will welcome or open their doors to renters next fall for the pope's momentous visit. >> some who will sublet, some are actually going to leave because they figure they won't be able to get around too well anyway and rent out their places. >> reporter: ed rose with philadelphia's greater hotel association says with 11,500 center city hotel rooms but nearly 60,000 to complement that from the five-county region to wilmington, south jersey and the shore, the region's faithful will be within driving distance of the event. >> to answer your question they are receiving a lot of calls. the phones are ringing off the hook. probably more so after today's announcement. >> reporter: philadelphia's aging population may have extra bedrooms they don't

the third factor is very important, and that is the natural beauty of the city. people typically come here and they say, my god. what a beautiful place this is. and therefore, they try to keep it that way. that is the third quality that was instrumental in shaping the city we enjoy. the location was important because it was located in exactly halfway between lake michigan and the mississippi river. when you try to locate the capital out of unorganized land, being in the center was very important. that was a key factor locating the city, and the reason why the legislator picked this location. madison is a very rare city on an isthmus. it is a relatively narrow -- waist surrounded by lakes. very few cities have this distinction. the man who laid out madison had seen washington, d.c., many times. one of his goals was to try to copy the street design that he saw in washington, d.c., here. so he did. by that, all of the streets came together and focus on a public building, such as the capitol. that was the key idea. the fact that madison was laid out on it is miss -- i

you know aleppo is a beautiful city, older than damascus even and to see it destroyed it's just heartbreaking. >> bashar al-assad says he will consider the idea of a local ceasefire. do you think he's interested in negotiating now when he seems to have the upper hand on the ground? >> well, again, you indicated why he might not want to negotiate, because things are improving for him with the western coalition, bombing various targets of i.s.i.l, i.s.i.s, on the other hand, it seems to me that president obama has sort of subtly indicated that he is focusing on iraq. and that syria needs to be worked out by somebody else. and all the military assets are directed towards iraq now. and so president assad knows that the only way he can survive is by appearing to be interested in peace. i'm sure he is. and he will be you know rewarded in a way because all along for the last three and a half years he's claimed that he's fighting extremist rebels and if he's allowed to say that, because i.s.i.s. and chapadarustra and others who are extremists might be wilings to go for it hypothesis. >> whait. >> wha

were less fortunate than you and me to go to good schools and perhaps also to do things in a beautiful city like new york at the barnes & noble. but the thing is that in many cases, people like that need something. i've gone around the world and i've seen many people who have been inspired by him. now, of course the our problems and things in which he was not able to do, and people with strong opinions. that's america. but i'll tell you what, i believe he believes in what he is doing and i think he's trying to do something with it. for me, i would say that, you know, we have lots of differences. my politics and my brothers politics are not very similar, but we have, and also our grandmother is grandmother probably couldn't say -- like mine could but the thing is we still come together. i hope that maybe in the future, but two more years, you know, you will have an opportunity to make another choice. that's also a wonderful thing about the united states. [applause] >> i will take some more. i really enjoy this. >> how are you? >> fight, how are you? >> well,. >> which culture are you the mos

next to the most beautiful city hall in the country. right in the center of the city. >> while the view from the rink is beautiful, most people we spoke with say they're going to need a few more visits to be able to take it in. >> it is a great skyline. you're not really focused on the buildings, really focused on falling. >> probably have to do a snow angel or something, i am all for it, yeah. >> and i just want to show you this little guy. he is adorable. he is been speeding around -- he is taking a break now. he has been speeding around passing everybody. he is so cute. new want to try it out. come down $3 for kids under 10, $4 for adults and $8 for skates and all of the information on the website at 6abc.com. eva pilgrim, channel 6 "action news." >> eva, thank you. we learned you are a pretty good ice skater yourself. >> 15 years ago. i don't know if i still am. i doubt it. we'll see. >>> still to come on "action news" at 4:00, twitter gets junked. the widely popular media site not making much money. we explain. >>> and later, the re

beautiful city. i am getting used to the new bridge. everybody loves it.- [ talking at the same time ] >> i remember, i remember when they put -- these are the current temperatures from today. i remember when the transamerica went in, people hated it. everybody got involved. now it is -- [ talking at the same time ] >> okay. here is where all the rain is going. pacific northwest. talked about it earlier. like a fire hose. this is a productive pattern for us. if it shifted ought. when we get -- south. when we get this pattern we will get the heaviest rainfall. this pattern being south by many hundred miles through the season. but for now, that is where the rain is. we are underneath it. that is where high pressure lives. cool mornings and warm days. along the coast we have a little bit of patchy fog. few high clouds. that is it. warmer day. low 70s. tomorrow back into the low 70s. perhaps low 80s as we head into middle of the week and weekend. the winds shift around. the winds right now are going on shore a little bit. san francisco international airport. w

what an incredibly beautiful city at night chicago is. absolutely beautiful. >> jimmy: what? laughter ] that's how they should do field sobriety tests. wallenda style. he's so calm. the guy -- i mean, that gave away the chevy after the world series was more nervous than he was. i have never been that relaxed in my life. this is what that interview would have been like if i was up there on that rope. >> ah! ah! >> how are you doing up there? >> how the [ bleep ] do you think i'm doing up here? terrible! ah! >> nik, you look amazing out there. >> i'm dying! i'm dying! >> do you need them down below to do anything for you? >> bring me a pair of pants, i just [ bleep ] myself. >> watching behind you and it looks good. >> that's good, because the backle of back of me is covered with [ bleep ]. >> what a view, that's a long way down. >> i know it's a long way down, shut the [ bleep ] up. ah! ah! >> jimmy: i don't know, to me, that's a more reasonable response. [ cheers and applause ] you know what i was thinking about today? if nik wallenda had mailed in an absentee ballot and fell

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it is reminder we enjoy the great symbol of our resilience i would call it and we enjoy this beautiful city, it comes at a cost and requires people to do -- melissa: you don't have to visit there if you don't want to. >> do we really need buildings? >> they would have tenants. >> is it complete? like i said my dad worked on trade center. >> still a lost empty floors. starting to fill up lately. melissa: one at a time. >> before 9/11 you had some empty floors, maybe a lot of them. >> a lot of them in those towe a lot of them. >> i think market will eventually tell us that question. but i think, that obviously, it doesn't, the building does not have to be that tall for this to be very dangerous situation. >> right. >> rather than saying let's rethink cities and rethink building it is a moment to appreciate the work that they do. all that in, we were sort of going back and forth on unions. the, police, government employees are now rescuing them. melissa: somebody sent me, i don't know the source if the is bureau of labor statistics, new york, new york, yearly window washer pay statistic is 31,

. >> what an incredibly beautiful city at night chicago is. eautiful. >> his first walk ending nearly 700 feet off the ground. that's over two football fields high. wallenda teetering 450 feet across while climbing over eight stories. >> definitely can feel the incline, yeah. it's a workout. >> reporter: the wire quivering beneath his feet from the windy city's nearly 30 mile per hour gusts. >> there's some wind. that wire was shaking underneath me. >> reporter: upping the heart-stopping ante with his second walk. >> i need everybody to be nice and quiet for me, okay? >> reporter: wallenda blindfolded as he walks between two skyscrapers almost 600 feet high in the sky. >> one more step. grab it. >> reporter: the steel wire no wider than a nickel was the only thing separating wallenda. >> it's amazing to hear that roar. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: and the thousands of anxious spectators below for a total of about eight minutes. >> walking so fast. i'm like slow down. >> it's my absolute pleasure to award you with not one but two guinnes

he's in the beautiful city of philadelphia. mark, how about it?uld people at or on their way to the airport right now get out of there and head to the train station? >> yeah. i think it depends on how long your travel time is. if you're going to florida, forget it, you have to wait, but if you're going within a five-hour radius of travel time i would absolutely take the train. i think that's the best way to travel on a day like today. better yet, my best tip is never travel on the day before thanksgiving, just don't do it, but if you're already in for it you're in for it. >> if they decide not to fly won't they lose the money they spent on the ticket? >> no. right now it depends on each airline's policy. on us air, you have to still travel and complete your travel by the 27th, but they won't hit you with a change fee or anything else because of the delays if you have to rebook. my suggestion is get your sanity back, change your ticket and go out early tomorrow, try to be on the first flight out tomorrow and in doing so you'll have a good chance of

>> our people here from jersey, new york, they taking pictures, spending their monday nip our beautiful citytmas tree. steve hartman, on the road, in reading, pennsylvania. >> not such a bad little tree. a holiday tradition that looks good enough to eat is now open in san francisco's famous fairmount hotel. but there is no nibble allowed at this two story gingerbread house. this is the eighth year for the exhibit. and it is very sweet. project for the employees who started planning last summer. >> ♪ >> 700 pounds every candy, nearly 2,000 pounds of sugar. >> all of this is part of a good cause. the gingerbread house is part of campaign to attract donations for the leukemia and lymphoma society. >>> we have a got trees, gingerbread houses and snow. >> i'm staying in the scene. are you kidding? >> i just need jacket up here, though. this is jack frost big boulder yesterday, and the day before, you might have watched, as we saw them making a ton of snow. you can see a lot of it on the ski slope now. they are unable to do that this morning. the temperatures are just too warm there. not warm enou

live from the belfort furniture weather center, a beautiful shot across the city, a beautiful day withine this morning giving way to clouds. the clouds and sunshine kind of jockeying back-and-forth through the day. the clouds moving in tonight. here is the deal -- chilly tonight, in the 20's, clearing out overnight. clouds, maybe a couple of flurries. there are clouds moving across, but they are part of a warm front, leading to warmer air. tomorrow,ake up mostly cloudy, cool. through the day, mid and upper 40's. upper 50's sunday. thievesning about stealing packages from doorsteps. in a surveillance video, a thief is seen stealing two inches from a front porch of a home in northwest washington. it happened monday afternoon on 5th street. this is at least the third such incident in the past month. it serious because he looks very comfortable looking up to the house. i just felt like it was an invasion of my privacy. >> the police say thefts of this sort usually increase during the holidays. they suggest having packages delivered to your workplace or request a signature before packages a