recology presenting.hink there's a lot of, really positive narrative there in terms of our investments translating into increased service levels, fewer customer calls around these issues, contamination diversion were additional investments. so we talked a little bit about the trash processing pilot, the contamination outreach and camera pilot, new onboard cameras. so i believe those cameras were implemented either earlier this month or late last month, and then organics pre-processing as well. just quickly walking through, some of our new reporting requirements that we've been working with, recology around coming to an agreement on including pension report, intercompany property rentals, operations reports, some proper processing, disposal reports, some program reports. so across all the 29 programs, we set some metrics to track. and so, along with that, we need new reporting requirements for all those metrics. and then reporting for the new accounts, including the balancing account, the programmatic rese

san franciscans can now attempt to get refunds from recology over past overcharges.ously denied recology's request to hearúits appeal of a ruling thar overcharges. recology has already refunded 162,000 san francisco customers in a settlement back in july of 2021e company had improperly raised rates for four years. >> checking in on the weather. we've got another nice day planned for tomorrow. a little warmer than today. no rain in the forecast, plenty of sunshine and then a little valley fog, perhaps in the morning. and those inland spots. but a real nice day for your wednesday. it's wednesday and thursday and- friday and saturday. temperatures getting to the upper 60s, low 70s. but valley fog maybe tomorrow morning. just not a lot. but if you are prone to valley fog, tomorrow morning will be the morning you see it. and then the winds kick up and those winds kind of blow the fog out and make it difficult for it basicallyn one place or to form- between the two. get your wind. and that's what we're going to see, starts the wind advisory starts tomorrow afternoon and la

recology, already refunded 162,000 san francisco customers in a settlement back in july of 2021.nstruction between san francisco and los angeles. the director of the rail authority discussed financing with state lawmakers during a hearing at the state capitol. it will now cost 32 to $35 billion just in the central valley. but the program only has $28 billion on hand right nown >> the air is being sucked out of the room funding wise by this one project. how do we get the public on board with something that has this much of a downside to it think the only way you get the public thie only way you get the public is i think the authority is performing better today than it was, and i think it will going forward. >> project managers predict the central valley segment of that no timeline yet for connecting san francisco to la. >> yes, it's a challenge. and just like when i worked on the bay bridge years ago and you're stuck in the middle of a very tough project, it's not. >> the project will rely on federal funding to get by. california voters approved the n 2008. the original budget cal

and inside recology, san francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it i

supreme court denied recology's request to hear its appeal of a ruling allowing customers to sue for more payments over past overcharges. that ruling is now final. the company has repaid $94.5 million to 162,000 customers. all of this is stemming from a widespread city hall corruption scandal centered around former public works director mohammed nuru. the saint mary's men's basketball team is waking up as west coast conference champs. the gaels beat gonzaga in the tournament championship game last night. the 69 to 60 win guarantees the gaels will make march madness. they'll find out their destination and opponent on sunday. gonzaga had won ten of the last 11 conference tournaments this is saint mary's first tournament title since 2019. congratulations. next at 630, cereal and egg prices are going up as inflation slightly rises ahead. the one major retailer announcing it's making things cheaper then robert kennedy junior has a long shot bid to win the white house. the bay area native he may peg as a running mate. and as we head to break, we are taking a live look outside right now at

and i realized that, um, you know, recology is quite an investment for any business. um, and recently i've been hearing some, um, talk with some of the merchants that i know, um, about how, you know, it's a challenge when you have so much, um, car cardboard. right? like, after hours and cardboard. now is something that is not necessarily part of your regular pickup. so there are additional fees added to things when you're putting out cardboard. i think we all know appear, you know, at and i think there are some efforts in some neighborhoods to almost do something like where you have like a cardboard co-op, right? like there's like one, like one merchant who's like, hey, i'm going down to the recycling place. he's like, i borrowed my friend's truck. does anybody want me to take some stuff? i mean, these are like, amazing people who are just doing these things for one another like this is crazy. but i feel like for us as merchants, that is that is a part of doing business, right. we're going to have shipments of things coming through that we need to then account for the

. >> she says her father worked for recology for 29 years. he was featured in a company newsletter in 2022, which is posted online. mom florinda worked as a 911 dispatcher for the city since 2008. 16 years the department of emergency management issued a statement which says in part, quote, everyone at dem is in shock today following the tragic loss of a long standing and valued colleague. candles were placed on the steps of the couple's home. neighbors say they're saddened and shocked. they described the couple as nice and helpful. one man tells me oscar helped him jump start his car. on social media. florinda posted photos showing her and oscar as avid bay area sports fans. the couple leaves behind four adult children, two daughters and two sons. they also have one grandchild, family and friends tell me they are not ready to speak on camera. police say homicide investigators responded to the scene and they're now leading the investigation in san francisco. amber lee, ktvu, fox two news, a san francisco federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit

so there's public works, recology department of parking and traffic. there is the san francisco municipal transportation agency for sfmta. we have the cbds, which is the community benefit districts. um soc. we did the healthy streets operation center, which handles a lot of the encampment related issues. book. the public utilities commission, um, the other piece is just like the miscellaneous departments. and the duplicate hold queue is where we kind of just hold all of these duplicate cases that we matched up automatically through technology, through, um, one of course, our pd, which is rec and park and then of course the other non city agencies which we consider as foreign jurisdiction . i'm sorry, as what as foreign jurisdictions, foreign jurisdictions. correct could what would be an example of that . it could be for cases that have gone to other departments outside of the city and county of san francisco, i see, thank you. like caltrans or, uh, that something like that. thank you. yeah so i wanted to add in here that i did mention there is the serv

and inside recology, san francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it i

similar concepts, and then we coordinate field trips to the garden for the environment, as well as recology transfer stations with that, because we do have limited spots, unlike visiting classrooms, as much as the capacity we can, we can offer almost unlimited, you know, per request. field trip slots are limited. so what we have been doing is instead of just per request, because they're very popular field trips, we also save significant numbers of field trips, spots for underserved schools and title one schools, especially most of those teachers just don't have the bandwidth to plan for field trips. so we would take the initiative to reach out to them, and also take out as much barrier as possible to sign up for field trips. here's an example of one of what strada mentioned earlier. our effort this couple of years has been really empowering the students to take actions and let their voice heard and take, you know, they can do something so, from the curriculum side, for example, this is an auditing project. so we figured while they're learning how to sort, if they put on that auditor hat, th

similar concepts, and then we coordinate field trips to the garden for the environment, as well as recology transfer stations with that, because we do have limited spots, unlike visiting classrooms, as much as the capacity we can, we can offer almost unlimited, you know, per request. field trip slots are limited. so what we have been doing is instead of just per request, because they're very popular field trips, we also save significant numbers of field trips, spots for underserved schools and title one schools, especially most of those teachers just don't have the bandwidth to plan for field trips. so we would take the initiative to reach out to them, and also take out as much barrier as possible to sign up for field trips. here's an example of one of what strada mentioned earlier. our effort this couple of years has been really empowering the students to take actions and let their voice heard and take, you know, they can do something so, from the curriculum side, for example, this is an auditing project. so we figured while they're learning how to sort, if they put on that auditor hat, th

at one point, recology donated $60,000 to the lefty o'doul's foundation for kids, but the money was instead used for parties for nuru and for his staff. >> all right, now on to the us economy and a better than expected february jobs report. the bureau of labor statistics says the economy added 275,000 jobs last month. but despite that gain, the unemployment rate actually inched up from 3.7% to 3.9. federal reserve chair jerome powell has told congress he believes the central bank will dial back interest rates this year. >> president biden took credit for the improving economy in his state of the union address last night. he also talked about artificial intelligence, saying he wants to harness the promise of it, especially one element that had a direct impact on him. abc seven news reporter zach fuentes spoke with experts about what the president and lawmakers are able to do with the fast growing technology to harness the promise of ai to protect us from peril. >> ban ai voice of personal and more a short but powerful statement on artificial intelligence made by the president in his state of

she says her father worked for recology for 29 years. he was featured in a company newsletter in 2022, which is posted online. mom florinda worked as a 911 dispatcher for the city since 2008. six teen years. the department of emergency management issued a statement which says in part, quote, everyone at d-e-m is in shock today following the tragic loss of a long standing and valued colleague. candles were placed on the steps of the couple's home. neighbors say they're saddened and shocked. they described the couple as nice and helpful. one man tells me oscar helped him jump start his car on social media. florinda posted photos showing her and oscar as avid bay area sports fans. the couple leaves behind four adult children, two daughters and two sons. they also have one grandchild. family and friends tell me they are not ready to speak on camera. police say homicide investigators responded to the scene and they're now leading the investigation in san francisco. amber lee, ktvu, fox two news federal agents raided homes in los angeles and m

she says her father worked for recology for 29 years.featured in a company newsletter in 2022, which is posted online. mom florinda worked as a 911 dispatcher for the city since 2008. six teen years. the department of emergency management issued a statement which says in part, quote, everyone at d-e-m is in shock today following the tragic loss of a long standing and valued colleague. candles were placed on the steps of the couple's home. neighbors say they're saddened and shocked. they described the couple as nice and helpful. one man tells me oscar helped him jump start his car on social media. florinda posted photos showing her and oscar as avid bay area sports fans. the couple leaves behind four adult children, two daughters and two sons. they also have one grandchild. family and friends tell me they are not ready to speak on camera. now, police say homicide investigators responded to the scene and they're the ones leading this investigation. julie. all right. >> amber lee reporting live for us tonight in the city. amber. thank you.

and inside recology, san francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it i

and inside recology, san francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it i

and inside recology, san francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass canstype of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it is cheaper for th

she says her father worked for recology for 29 years. he was featured in a company newsletter in 2022, which is posted online. mom florinda worked as a 911 dispatcher for the city since 2008. 16 years the department of emergency management issued a statement which says in part, quote, everyone at d-e-m is in shock today following the tragic loss of a long standing and valued colleague, candles were placed on the steps of the couple's home. neighbors say they're saddened and shocked. they described the couple as nice and helpful. one man tells me oscar helped him jump start his car on social media. florinda posted photos showing her and oscar as avid bay area sports fans. the couple leaves behind four adult children, two daughters and two sons. they also have one grandchild. family and friends tell me they are not ready to speak on camera. police say homicide investigators responded to the scene and they're now leading the investigation in san francisco. amber lee ktvu, fox two news. >> thank you. amber a local teacher has been arrested,